Short Suck 66: Locusta of Gaul: The World’s First Serial Killer?

Short Suck 66: Locusta of Gaul: The World’s First Serial Killer?

Long before forensic science could expose a killer, poison was one of ancient Rome’s deadliest—and hardest to detect—weapons, and few were said to wield it better than the mysterious Locusta of Gaul. Was this infamous poisoner truly the world’s first documented serial killer, or was she something else entirely: an assassin, weapons maker, and deadly tool of some of Rome’s most ruthless rulers?

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