Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast · Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins
S39E03 - Three Days of Dying
March 17, 2026·19 min·1 clip
Charles Bravo took three days to die, his body consumed by a poison doctors could not identify.
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A barrister dies by poison, and an open verdict leaves everyone without a satisfying answer.
Charles Bravo's final three days make this single episode less a tidy poisoning mystery than a close study of uncertainty. A 30-year-old barrister lies dying at the Priory while doctors, including Queen Victoria's physician Sir William Gull, fail to identify the poison or get a…
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You get 72 hours of medical helplessness, one contested statement, and a first inquest that satisfies no one.
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