SNAFU with Ed HelmsThis is the story of Prohibition you haven't heard. Sure, Prohibition was a gigantic SNAFU to begin with. But it turns out Prohibition was actually darker than any of us could have imagined. Flappers and jazz? Not the full picture.
Season 3 of SNAFU follows an unlikely pair of sleuths trying to uncover what was behind a mass wave of deadly poisonings that killed thousands of people during Prohibition. Why were so many people dying when they imbibed? And what do gun-slinging Prohibition agents, Washington politicians, and a raging culture war have to do with it? Find out on SNAFU Season 3: Formula 6.
Prohibition.
It's an era synonymous with speakeasies, jazz flappers, and failure. In fact, it's one of the biggest lawmaking snaffoos of all time. Well within that snaffo is another story, one you probably haven't heard about. How people started dying mysteriously and the unlikely duo who tried to save them.
It's the nineteen tens.
Meet New York City's first medical examiner, Charles Norris.
He had a big, booming voice and a Yale football player's presence.
And his partner, Alexander Gettler, chomping on a cigar all the time.
From what I understand, every death in the city was their responsibility. As they cataloged the city's dead, they pioneered the new field of forensic toxicology.
Like a Buddy cop movie of like these two scientists in the trenches together and.
Their work gave them a look into the sinister side of the speakeasy. Turns out something or someone was poisoning people through the twenties. The two of them rolled gurneys into the city. Morgue pulled samples of deadly poisons from dead bodies and connected the.
Dots, unraveling a terrifying story.
Did people die? They died daily.
As the evidence mounted all across the country. All signs pointed to a big player behind the poisoned liquor.
That was killing Americans, the US government.
On the third season of Snapfoo, the story of Formula six.
The last thing you want is for your people to be called murdering chemas in a congressional heroine.
How prohibitions war on alcohol went so off the rails the government wound up poisoning its own people, and then subscribe to Snafoo Season three starting March twelfth, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
