Daisy de Melker - Part 1
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Show notes
Daisy de Melker was a Johannesburg nurse who married three times between 1909 and 1931. Two of her husbands died years apart, and so did her own son, all in circumstances nobody thought to question until it was far too late.
The case unravelled over a fake cat, a poison register signed under a dead man's surname, and a Turffontein pharmacist who recognised her face in the newspaper. What followed was a thirty-day trial that packed the Johannesburg Supreme Court, made headlines as far away as London and Shanghai, and ended with one of the most talked-about verdicts in South African legal history.
In Part One, Jess and Liz cover Daisy's upbringing, all three marriages, the deaths, the exhumations, and the trial itself, start to finish. Part Two picks up with what happened after she was gone.
Stay safe and stay skeptical.
