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The Murder Patsy Wright

January 18, 2024·1 hr 15 min·4 clips

The way that strychnine works is horrific.

Mark opens by bringing Amy back to a case they have covered before, this time with a little more room to dig. Amy says the story seems straightforward on the surface, but a lot of it starts to blur once they look closer. They keep circling the idea that the original reporting left out too much. That missing context matters to them because they keep comparing the information world of 1987 with the way people expect to know everything now. The conversation stays less about certainty than about all the places certainty falls apart. Both hosts say they hate unanswered questions. From there, they start testing what may have happened around the CPR and mouth-to-mouth moment. One theory they float is that NyQuil was splashed onto the towel to make it look like something was coming back up. They do not think it would make sense to put it in the mouth. Instead, they lean toward the idea of using the towel as part of the appearance of mouth-to-mouth. That leads into a long stretch of back-and-forth about what the visual evidence might actually mean. They also talk about a tray with two plates that appears in the segment. Steve and Sally say it was there. First responders do not recall seeing it. The episode itself shows Steve moving the tray and joking about fries before the medical response takes over. Amy treats the tray as another mystery rather than a side note. If it was really there, she thinks it could send the case in a different direction. If it was not there, then something about the presentation does not add up. Mark and Amy keep nudging each other toward the same unresolved conclusion without ever fully landing it. They joke through the grim material, keeping the conversation loose even as they stay skeptical. The episode closes with the usual invitation to follow along on Facebook or StillUnsolved.com and email the show. They end with their standing warning to stay safe, stay away from strychnine, and not use NyQuil as a sleep aid.

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Mark and Amy take another pass at an Unsolved Mysteries case and keep finding the parts that do not quite add up.

Mark and Amy circle back to an Unsolved Mysteries case and spend most of the discussion on the bits that still do not line up. The reporting from 1987, the CPR, the NyQuil, the towel, and the tray with two plates keep pulling the conversation back into the same knot, which gives…

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