Christiana Edmunds: The Chocolate Cream Killer
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I can’t believe so many women have it in their heads that a married man who cheats on his wife could be trusted to be loyal to them...
Very true..
Well my philanderer must be the exception to the rule. Hang on, I will ask him. Hey up...where the heck is he??
Happens every day. People believe cheating spouse do it because (whatever excuse told to them) but it will never happen to them because they are meant to be together. Then history repeats itself.
well, its kinda hard to bother with a married man if you don't think his previous engagement is the problem.
Same as getting involved with someone who is willing to kill. When they have finished with you, they will kill you and keep the cash you both stole, and might even emigrate/disappear for good.
"For pest control, he simply used his own cat"
*Shows video of mouse chilling out with a cat*
😂
Cracked me up.
That's a wee rat, say I
Yeah dude that’s my favorite!
I know, that was so cute!
Haha lol. Cute
So glad the nice shop owner didn’t get blamed for her awful crimes
He threw it all away. He should have been compensated.
This is why you’re strictly forbidden from RETURNING FOOD. So sad a child died
Food can be returned for refund or credit. The returned food is then thrown away.
I returned apple tarts to asda because they were half cooked and was given a voucher
You can return food.
Women use food to kill, men use something violent. Gives a whole new meaning to "A way to a man's heart is through his stomach."
LoL... yep, they do say poison is a woman's weapon. Ironic thing though, poison can take WEEKS,, makes you think if it actually is any less violent. It can be such a slow agonizing death
They say the way to a woman's heart is through her 2nd and 3rd rib.
This reminds me of the Tylenol Murders in a lot of ways
The Chocolate Killer. Oh , that is dark
😉🤣
Yes Smack! On Dark Curiosities to boot!!
I see what ya did there 😂😂👍
Smooth.
Dark chocolate; even darker!
Now I want a box of fancy chocolates.
Me too!! They candy footage all looked so yummy!
Just avoid Maynard's if you can 😁
I agree, those chocolates looks so good!
Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know whatcha gonna get. 😉
The first box of chocolates are thorntons. I doubt they consented to this advert
Am I missing something? Emily Beard was poisoned by eating sweets, (provided by someone who had motive to get her out of the way) yet then she went on to eat sweets that evidently arrived anonymously through the post?
Those images of chocolates in video looked so good I'd eat even if they were laced with strychnine.
I too would be tempted with the chocolate - I prefer the violet creams..... 🤔 🤣
Good wishes.
bitch me too
Hahaha
LOL!😂
The baby is adorable!😇
I really love these older less known cases. Amazing video!♥
How obsessed can a person be with another ? Would one poison half the town's population just to win a single man's love ? This woman Christiana must have been suffering from some malady related to the mind . Hers is a pitiable case really .
Fascinating, I didn't know that autopsies could find poison back then.
I'll have to do some research as to when was that first available.
Thank you DC, be safe!!!
Love that you give exposure to the lesser known cases. Keep up the great work!
The Chocolate Cream Killer: She melts in your mouth, not in your hands.
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Methinks she did both. 😂😂
This kinda reminds me of that case in Washington state back in the 80s with cyanide laced Excedrin. The woman who did it was trying to kill her husband but planted more in stores to cover herself. Christiana wanted to deflect suspicion and a poor little boy died because of it, just like Susan Snow in the Excedrin case.
Really sad how some people value human life so little.
Thanks for another dark and fascinating story, DC
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❤️ so very sorry. This is a great channel. Glad this has helped you
Girl! Chocolate is my favorite, so I IMMEDIATELY clicked!
Thanks for the hard work again 🍫🤗
Wow this was really interesting. The funny part in your story was the video showing a cat lying on the ground watching a mouse with no interest in attacking it. Thank you so much for your videos. ♥♥♥
Lol cat
Tom and Jerry.
I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
Hi Bill ✋
Ok Bill.
It don't matter, you're getting impeached, framed for poisoning chocolates, as well as a pet rabbit in a pot!
I said the same thing!!! 😂😂
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I love these older cases! Thanks so much for your work and a story well told!
Of course, "harmless flirtation". Yeah, right. 🙄
As for the motive, it sounds really similar to the Stella Nickell product tampering case from Washington state, USA: the idea seems to be that if they can tamper with enough products to cause seemingly random poisonings, (including placing poisoned products in their own homes) that it will throw suspicion off of them and into some random "mad poisoner?"
These older cases are my favorite. Great job...thanx 👍
Not arsenic this time! Thank you DC, your videos are very good.
Thanks DC.💔🤦🦌 Very sad.
Those chocolates sure looked tempting tho....stay safe lady.😷🏴
I have seen this a couple of times already by other TH-camrs but it nice to compare to see if one has a little more information than another.
She wasn’t crazy. She was a stone cold psychopath who’d do anything to get her way. The chocolatier probably turned her down or slighted her in some way, so she fixated upon him and decided to ruin him whilst getting rid of her lover’s wife.
Ah, that Scottish burr...
I know of this murder case,but it's now sweetly told,many Thanks😉
I heard this one on Brief Case. Well done though I enjoyed listening again
Glad to hear your voice on here! Thank you for the amazing video. Have a wonderful day.
Why did they have chocolate coated strychnine tablets? And it even has a set "dose" amount. Just seems a bit... Dangerous. And odd 5:41
IKR? I thought same thing?!
Right!? I thought the same bloody thing!!
I actually spent a lot of my childhood in Indianapolis, home of Eli Lilly, and so I've seen A LOT of very, *very* strange old Lilly medicine bottles in local antique shops, flea markets, garage sales and in local museums...but chocolate coated strychnine is a new one on me!
The only thing I could think of is that it was either intended to be a temptingly good tasting & smelling poison to entice rats or other pests...or, alternately, that it's from that very bizarre era of medicine when things like radium water and mercury pills were considered to have curative properties? I do know that in Victorian times there were some people who thought strychnine was an aphrodisiac, so perhaps it was sold for that reason? But still- the dose listed on the bottle was hardly the minute, homeopathic dosage that was generally used for "therapeutic" means! So I'm left thinking that it was most likely intended to be a rat poison or something similar? At least, I certainly hope so? Because it's more than a bit creepy to think of a major pharmaceutical company selling chocolate coated poison pills with the intention of themmbeing used to poison people??
They were manufactured for the purpose of poisoning animals. That's my guess.
It was used for medicinal purposes, around the Victorian Era, so the chocolate coating would be to mask the bitter taste. "...was once prescribed as a remedy for heart and respiratory complaints and as a stimulant (or body "upper")." I also saw some links mention for treatment in depression, vision loss, and paralysis.
@@laurav956 Agatha Christie used chocolate-covered trinitrin in The Chocolate Box, Poirot's greatest failure. And, of course, in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the victim's tonic actually contained strychnine.
Excellent case study. Old, lesser-known cases (sometimes unknown to me) are my favorite. Thank you, @Dark Curiosities! Well done, you.
Thank you for such professional, thorough, captivating videos! God bless you in all your endeavors!
This has been on several podcasts but it is like the Tylenol case, which was never solved. Most people just felt sorry for the company it had done nothing and had to recall the product which must have cost a fortune. A recent case nearby involved a women fired from a cookie company, she tampered with cookies on a store shelf. She was apprehended by the police.
Lmao imagine casually going to a pharmacy to buy some poison
My dad was a biochemist. He once pointed out to me that anything can be a poison. It's a question of how much is ingested.
I hope you are staying happy and well.
Another tragic case that shows how the human mind and behaviors can be so misaligned.
Thank you for your fantastic work!
One book I read which had a chapter on this case suggested the theory that Christina wanted the poisonings to be seen as random, thus taking away suspicion from her so that when she actually murdered Mrs Beard, no-one would suspect her. Luckily for Mrs Beard, Christina was caught before she carried out that part of her plan.
I love listening to you. Your stories are so interesting. Thank you for all your hard work.
She should have gotten the death penalty, especially since she never showed remorse.
Been waiting for a new video. Thank you!! Sending well wishes your way 💜
This case is new to me. Great job, very interesting.
Such an intriguing story. Thanks for your hard work! Love the gorgeous cat, just relaxing with his
mousey pal- no intention, whatsoever, of attacking him!🤣
Great Video!!! This is the first time of hearing about her!!! Thank You Miss!!!🌹👍😎
Hello there! Thank you for posting this interesting video - very enjoyable, for sure. Hope you're doing well!
Great narrative, thank you!
Thank You for your hard work!!!
She did a lot of things to avoid suspicion, divert attention and avoid the death penalty. Is an insane person capable of all those things???
Thanx. I enjoyed watching this. Never heard this one
Love your stories DC ❤️
Great video thank you.
Very interesting story. Thank you 😉
Amazing video! Really enjoyed binging your videos this week. However will say youtube are slapping several adverts in your videos ! They’re doing it to everyone :(
I love your channel!
Lovely to hear a Scots narrator for a CHANGE.
I kept getting ads for chocolate during this lol
Fascinating case, as always, and wonderful images! Love your channel!
Chocolate! Chocolaaaaaate! Ah, i remember choooooocolate! Sweet, Delicious, chocolate! Ive Always Hated It!
first of all. this channel is great.
This case reminds me about a similar poisoning happened about a century ago in Steglitz (today a Berlin's district): a pharmacist had an affair with her co-worker, that wanted to marry him, even if he had a wife and 3 children.
One day a packet of pastries was left outside the family's door. The boys were enthusiast about the sweets, but the mother and the daughter don't wanted to eat it, probably because of dieting or something similar. One kid toke a bite but "the taste was funny" and spit the bite out. The other boy felt the bitter taste but he swallowed it. Soon after he took his bike but during his trip he fell on the street, the crowd thought about a bike accident but the boy had foam on his mouth and died soon after.
The mistress was arrested but I forgot the details. There was something tracing her back to the shop that was selling the pastries.
I have a book about old German crimes, if someone's is interested I could find the names and more details.
Sorry for my poor english.
That Hershey Ad tho
My cats would never let that mouse get away. They'd chase it to death.
Where are you from? I absolutely love your channel!
Kind of strange seeing all the comments joking around about gruesome murders of multiple people including children.
Hell hath no fury...
YIKES! Very interesting!
She was trying to confuse the trail, so even the original case of poisoning her lovers wife could be blamed on the confectioner and she would get lost in the crowd.
This one is bizzare, like some victorian England Sherlock Holmes stuff
Her main target was the doctor’s wife and she laced the candy to divert attention from that so when the woman is question is killed, everyone will think it’s the mad chocolate murderer !
Anyone else have a strong craving for a box of chocolates?
Ghastly case and a ghastly
woman! Thank you for this, D.C.
Obsession is a helluva drug.
Very good story.
Today I've learnt the term of "senile decay"
Wow. Gotta watch out for those accidental strychnine poisoning!
I put on twenty pounds just looking at that box of chocolate creams.
Read this also in the book Trials of Passion: Crimes Committed in the Name of Love and Madness
by Lisa Appignanesi
Our pulses will quicken
with each drop of strychnine
while we poison the pigeons in the park...
A woman scorned 😕
A psychopath
'I am not happy, so no one else deserves to be either."
She was declared insane for doing everything else society does, except murder by chocolate.
First! So glad to see you doing this one.
The method reminds me of the old story the chocolate box
You know someone deserves to rot when they think it's appropriate to poison cats and dogs, even as a cover.
The way Augustus Gloop aspires to go out.
Oooh, is that our Ukrainian brand Lviv handmade chocolate I see at 11:05?
Only recognized it by the look of my favorite candies and labels in Ukrainian 😅
I do not want eat chocolate.
Who eats food anonymously sent through the mail? Just idiotic
hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
It was troubling to me that such a potent poison as strychnine would be sold coated in chocolate as described on the bottle and I believe the shopkeep should have destroyed the confections once returned to prevent exactly what happened to that young man
I may never eat chocolate again!
This is why there’s food safety regulations
The woman blinking her eyes was a creepy image with the subject matter
I wish I had a box of chocolate creams
Fitting this was my recommended on Valentines Day (Cuz chocolate)
If you started watching this video without seeing the title, I think that first picture of her would clue you in to the fact that she was a killer. I've seen few images of people from back then where even a DRAWING of them has the crazy eyes.
Clearly deranged. She could have been randomly putting poison out in the public to divert attention from herself, but then tries to implicate the doctor, drawing attention to herself. I think she got a thrill from what she was doing.
death by chocolate literally
Do we know why she did this?
Poor child