Plants are lovely but can also be deadly. Join Chelsea and Jenny as we cover the stories of people who used the darker side of botany to their advantage.
In 1676, a noblewoman was beheaded and burned in Paris and her last words were a threat: half the nobility had done the same things, and if she felt like talking, she could ruin them all. She wasn't wrong. This week Jenny covers the Affair of the Poisons — one of the largest criminal scandals in French history. We're talking 442 suspects, 36 executions, a fortune-teller with a mysterious garden oven, a network of poison-sellers serving the royal court, and an investigation that got shut down...
5 Sept 2026
A Landscaper's Secrets | Bruce McArthur
For nearly a decade, men connected to Toronto's Gay Village disappeared, one by one, with little explanation. The man responsible was a landscaper — someone whose job gave him keys to properties across the city, and whose work made it easy to hide what he'd done in plain sight. This episode traces the disappearances, the investigation that took far too long to connect them, and the forensic details — buried in the very planters he maintained — that finally closed the case.
7 Aug 2026
The Duck Pond, the Fire Pit, and the Wedding | Laurie Shaver
He was the kind of guy who dug a pond in his backyard so his family could have ducks. In November of 2015, Michael Shaver went to a tractor show with his wife and kids, came home — and then, according to Laurie, drove away in a black SUV and was never heard from again. His friends didn't buy it. His coworkers didn't buy it. And eventually, neither did the police. This week Jenny covers the disappearance of Michael Shaver: a missing husband, a very strange flower delivery, a fire pit that we...
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