Ep 66-A Partridge for Lunch (Part2 John Bodkins Adams)

Send us Fan MailHe pockets morphine during a police search, shrugs off forged prescriptions with “God’s forgiveness,” and still claims it’s impossible to accuse a doctor. We follow the case of Dr John Bodkin Adams in 1950s Eastbourne as Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad steps into a town where the police leadership is tangled up with the suspect, and the paper trail points to a chilling pattern: dangerous drugs, suspicious cremations, and an uncanny number of patients leaving money and valuables in their wills.Resources: 1. John Bodkin Adams — Wikipedia  —  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bodkin_Adams2. R v Adams (1957) — Wikipedia  —  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Adams_(1957)3. Death of Edith Alice Morrell — Wikipedia  —  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Edith_Alice_Morrell4. Death of Gertrude Hullett — Wikipedia  —  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gertrude_Hullett5. Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin — Wikipedia  —  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Devlin,_Baron_Devlin6. Frederick Geoffrey Lawrence — Wikipedia  —  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Geoffrey_Lawrence7. Percy Hoskins — Wikipedia  —  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Hoskins8. BBC News: "The case of suspected Irish serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams" (2016)  —  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-356060709. Irish Times: "Doctor grows richer as old patients die" (2010)  —  https://www.irishtimes.com/news/doctor-grows-richer-as-old-patients-die-1.67943910. Unknown Kent & Sussex Magazine: "One of the Greatest Murder Trials of All Time" (2023)  —  https://unknownkentandsussex.co.uk/dr-john-bodkin-adams-one-of-the-greatest-murder-trials-of-all-time/11. HeadStuff: "John Bodkin Adams, A Curious and Dubious Doctor" (2017)  —  https://headstuff.org/culture/history/terrible-people-from-history/john-bodkin-adams-a-curious-and-dubious-doctor/12. Murderpedia: John Bodkin Adams  —  https://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/adams-john-bodkin.htm13. MedicalBag: "He Stood Trial for the Suspicious Deaths of 163 Former Patients" (2014)  —  https://www.medicalbag.com/features/he-stood-trial-for-the-suspicious-deaths-of-163-former-patients/14. CrimeReads: "The Great Age of the Celebrity Crime Reporter" (2021)  —  https://crimereads.com/percy-hoskins-age-of-the-celebrity-crime-reporter/15. London Review of Books: Paul Sieghart, "Sitting it out" (1984)  —  https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v06/n14/paul-sieghart/sitting-it-out16. Randalstown Arches Association: Heritage Tales  —  https://randalstownarches.com/randalstown-heritage-tales/11-bodkin-adams/17. The Persecution of Doctor Bodkin Adams — Alexander Baron  —  https://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/dr-bodkin-adams.html18. BMJ/PMC: "Serial homicide by doctors: Shipman in perspective" — Herbert G Kinnell (2000)  —  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1119267/19. The Lancet Psychiatry: "Shipman and Bodkin Adams in the dock"  —  https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(15)00467-8/fulltext20. Oxford Academic: "R v Adams and Terminal Care in Postwar Britain" (2014)  —  https://academic.oup.com/shm/article-pdf/28/1/155/6872067/hku067.pdf21. University Hospital Southampton NHS: "Doctrine of double effect"  —  https://www.uhs.nhs.uk/health-professionals/clinical-law-updates/doctrine-of-double-effect22. Grumpy Old Bookman: "The Strange Case of Dr John Bodkin Adams"  —  http://grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com/2004/08/strange-case-of-dr-john-bodkin-adams.html23. Patrick Devlin, Easing the Passing: The Trial of Doctor John Bodkin Adams (The Bodley Head, 1985), ISBN 0-57113-993-0  —  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Devlin,_Baron_Devlin24. Reddit r/UnresolvedMysteries: Discussion thread on Adams and the Macmillan connection  —  https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/3gczdy/https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/japan-first-approve-stem-cell-treatments-parkinsons-heart-failure?utm Support the showDon't miss a (heart) beat! Check out our Instagram @doctoringthetruthpodcast and email us your Medical Mishaps at [email protected]. Join us on Facebook at Doctoring the Truth, and TikTok @doctoring the truth. Don't forget to download, rate, and review so we can keep bringing you more exciting content each week!Stay safe, and stay suspicious...trust, after all, is a delicate thing!Don't forget to check out these fantastic discounts using promo code STAYSUSPICIOUS from our sponsors at:*thecuminclub.com for 30% off*https://strongcoffeecompany.com/discount/STAYSUSPICIOUS for 20% off*www.handful.com for 30% off *www.standshoes.com for 15% off*www.oldglory.com for 15% off*www.getcheeky.com for 30% off*https://mollybz.com for 10% off *www.RSRVCollective.com for 30% off *klearprotein.com for 20% off*www.torrain.org for 15% off*www.cozyearth.com for 21% off* www.yarokhair.com for 15% off  *www.loveindus.com for 21% off ...