Selling suicide: The poisonous chemical linked to teen deaths
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Selling suicide: The poisonous chemical linked to teen deaths

B1IntermediateJune 8, 202627 min
  • Interview
  • Crime & justice

In 2023 Ontario resident Kenneth Law was arrested in his Mississauga home and later charged with first degree murder. He was accused of selling poison to people at risk of self-harm. More recently, prosecutors said that the murder charges would be dropped as Law would plead guilty to 14 counts of aiding suicide. His trial had previously been scheduled to start in spring 2026. But who is Kenneth Law? And how did he get into the business of suicide? This week we're joined by Hunting The Suicide Salesman host Daemon Fairless to...

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Conspiracy theories, cults and crimes is a podcast that dives into the darkest corners of human behavior. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, we uncover the true stories behind the world's most shocking crimes, deadly ideologies and secret plots from mass suicides and political assassinations to secret government experiments and UFO cults. Follow conspiracy

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theories, cults and crimes now, wherever you get your podcasts. This is a CBC podcast. What we found with this story is like a lot of the family of people who had killed themselves, they went on this like, where did this come from?

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Like how did they die? Where did it come from? Where they ordered from? And they pieced it together.

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