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Rewind with Karen & Georgia - 86: Live at the Enmore Theatre

March 4, 2026·1 hr 24 min·5 clips

Karen and Georgia describe the night a heckler in Melbourne yelled this is shite and made Georgia cry.

Thallium is the ugly star here. The case tightens when investigators find poison traces in pockets, which makes a house dress feel both cozy and completely suspicious. Nobody is trusting anyone who hovers around the kitchen after this. The hosts turn one small detail into a whole social rule about people who volunteer too eagerly around food and tea. The joke lands fast. Then the facts get worse: a 63-year-old woman is arrested for attempted murder after her sister-in-law is left blind. The niece is part of it too. One host briefly loses the family map, and the other snaps the relationship back into place without slowing the story down. That is the pace. Dread keeps running into tiny corrections, side jokes, and the blunt admission that one of them did not read everything. Investigators exhume earlier bodies. Two show traces of thallium. The others were cremated, leaving the case with a brutal dead end. The coroner comes up. Nobody sounds fully sure how much weight that inquest has, which makes the old legal machinery feel even stranger. A book almost enters the conversation. Instead, the title disappears into jokes about the dictionary, the Bible, and The Da Vinci Code before the story pulls itself back together. Then the names arrive. Mary Mickelson and Christina Mickelson are tied to the murder charges, and the room has to keep up with damage the story has already made clear. The ad clutter is hard to miss. Podcast promos crowd the edges, so the case keeps having to push through commercial noise. Even so, the center stays sharp. Poison, pockets, food, exhumations, and fast host banter make this a bleak story told with no polished distance.

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A live My Favorite Murder rewind follows a thallium poisoning case through house dresses, family suspicion, and grim inquest findings.

A thallium poisoning case gives this My Favorite Murder live rewind its nastiest little hook: a 63-year-old woman is arrested after her sister-in-law and niece are allegedly poisoned, with the sister-in-law left blind. The detail that sticks is the house dress.

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A thallium poisoning case, a stolen house dress, and one host who definitely did not do the reading.

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