The Most Diabolical Surrogate Son In Texas History | The New Detectives

Season 4, Episode 9: First, in San Angelo, Texas, Timothy Scoggin—a well-liked mortician—poisons the elderly Lita and Algie Nobles with arsenic. Watch as scientists use a nuclear reactor and a groundbreaking test on cremated ashes to prove his guilt. Then, in Missouri, Shirley Allen uses the sweet, "stealthy" taste of antifreeze to slowly kill her husband for insurance money, only to be undone by her own daughter's testimony and a gas chromatograph. Finally, in Michigan, a "perfect" riding accident is exposed as a murder when scientists in Sweden use an experimental mass spectrometry method to detect the paralyzing drug Succinylcholine in the victim's tissue. Some scenes in this program have been reenacted, due to the sensitive nature of the show, viewer discretion is advised. #NewDetectives #TrueCrime #ForensicScience