Only Murders in my Mind
Episode 31: Strange Murder Weapons and Chilling Tales
[Music] Welcome to Only Murders in My Mind. A random thought production. Hi, I'm Carol Bissett, a crime writer. And I invite you with my co-presenters, Liz Hedgecock and Mike Jackson, each week to our conversations on all things murderous. Hello everyone, and welcome to this episode of Only Murders in My Mind. And with me as usual, I have the marvellous Liz Hedgecock. Hello! And the wonderful... [Laughs] Hello Mike. Mike Jackson. I'm not quite sure it's wonderful followed by giggles and laugh. Well, you complained, didn't you, before? I'm always complaining. This is very true. The fabulous Mike Jackson. Yes, yes. Good afternoon, Liz. Good afternoon. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Before we start today, we've got a really good one today. A couple of weeks ago now, we did a podcast on a hiccuporo. And we were staggered. I think I can use that word at the views we got. And this was just on YouTube. And it's sort of hovering around now 1,900 views, which for our little podcast is like, well, we're not quite sure why. We hope it's because it's good. Yeah, so if anyone has any idea of why that particular episode seems to have gone a bit viral, then please let us know so we can do it again. And it's picked your curiosity. It's episode 26. So if you want to go and listen to it, if you haven't done already, then you can be part of that growing number of people across the world. Oh, yes. Yeah, that was the other thing. We looked at some stats, but I'm not very good with stats, but we looked at some stats from Spotify. And that shows you the world map and numbers of people listening abroad growing. We've got quite a following in the USA now. Mexico in South America, Papua New Guinea. I'm trying to think of where else. We had some lovely comments too on YouTube. Oh, yeah, we did. I think was it episode 26? Yeah, that was that episode. We had somebody from Mexico on there, somebody from America. And I forget where there was another one there was somewhere else within the world. So we aren't just worldwide. We are. Speaking of worldwide, actually, I don't know if anyone's come across it. I've started playing a little computer game called Global. And you have to try and guess the country. You get war wrong. I'm discovering how woeful my knowledge of the world is because, you know, you'll pin it down to Central America and then you think, right, okay, that's quite big. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, Eastern Europe either. I'm thinking, right. Okay. So it's next to this country, but it could be so many of them. Failness, rebellious geography. I paced them too hard. So yeah, the world got too big for me. I was all right when we did Great Britain after that. It just sort of blew my mind. Well, it feels like it's changed a lot since I was a kid as well. Yeah. Countries that did exist don't and countries that don't exist do. And yes. So anyway, we'd like to thank everybody for that massive sort of viewing rate. And yeah, it's going to super boost. Yes. Thank you for listening to us. It made us very happy. Yeah. And what we're going to talk about today is unusual. And why is it unusual, Mike? Because we're going today to talk about unusual murder weapons that have been used in science fiction. And we've been doing some research and have found some very, very strange weapons or have been used to dispose of people. Well, mine are weapons that have been used to murder ordinary people. But are unusual weapons. Oh. So my not science fiction. So what? Crime fiction. I suppose it's fiction. Yes. And crime fact. Or minor crime fiction. Right. Right. So go on, Mike. Oh, no, don't hit us with what? Reveal your weapon. I think the favourite one I've found so far is from a rolled-down story. Now, most people, when they think of rolled-down, think of all the children's books that he's written. See, I think tells the unexpected. And the woman and the credits and the kind of the musical box tune. That's right. But I think lots of people don't. You know, I think a lot of people don't realize that he did write some of the very short macabre stories. And one of them was called Lamb to the Slaughter. And in Lamb to the Slaughter, there's this. Apparently this couple, she's pregnant. Her husband is a police officer or retired police officer. And he comes home one day and says he's going to leave her. And she's cooking dinner at the time. She gets really angry. When he turns his back on her, she hits him on the head with a frozen leg of lamb. That's going to hurt. And it did more than hurt. It killed him. And so then she had to think, how do I get around this? So she thought the best thing to do would be to cook the murder weapon. So there was no evidence. So she did. She cooked the leg of lamb. And when the investigating police officers came around to talk to her, she fed them the lamb and a glass of whiskey. And got away with the murder. And it just struck me as humorous as well. As well as slightly macabre. Yes. I mean, I'm just going to say, if there are only two of them for dinner, how can they have a whole leg of lamb? Yes. Yes. Although maybe she was planning Shepherd's pie. Or maybe she was expecting visitors. Maybe. Well, I've got one here. And this is a true life one. And it was a man called Reginald Helmsley Dodgendale in 1980. It's off the tongue. It does. In 1988 was killed with a pumpernickel bread roll. It must have been quite a hefty one. I think that was in America. It would have to be in America. So what happened? I mean, did they throw it out? No, it was clouded on the back of the head with it, I think. But it must have had a brick in it. It must have been a big roll. Maybe it was overbaked. It isn't a pumpernickel quite hard. Yes. Yes, it is. But even so, I was thinking that takes some doing. Doesn't it kill it? Some do with a loaf of bread that isn't choking them. You know, eat this. It's horrible. I choked. Yeah. You've got any Liz? Oh, I was thinking. I mean, an example. And this is not so much from a crime story. It's kind of something I've seen going around on the face. But that classic thing of, you know, someone invites a friend around for, you know, for drinks or whatever. And, you know, they have drinks together. Hot day. And the host has five drinks and she's absolutely fine. Her guest has a drink and keels over. They're having it out of the same jug of punch. How come the guest dies and the host doesn't? Give me. It's a hot day. All right. Very hot day. So the host has had lots of drinks. The guest only had one drink. So the guest was taking longer to drink a drink on this hot day. What might have happened? It's a hot day. What might you do with your drink? Put ice in it. Yeah. And the poison's in the ice. Oh. It's funny, actually, because when I used to talk about travel vaccines, we used to get a lady used to come and talk about how to stay safe when you go abroad. And one of the things was don't put ice in your drinks in some countries. Yes. Because the water isn't just because it's, you know, don't drink the water. But the ice is OK. It isn't. It's still water. So another possible unusual means of murder. And this one came to mind would be a bell pole. Yes. Yes. Anyone acquainted with the Sherlock Holmes story and speckled band? Yes. With a snake come down the bell pole. Yes. Because Sherlock Holmes looks at the bell pole and thinks, hang on a minute. That's not real. It doesn't go anywhere. It's just attached to the ceiling. So it was just a ladder for the snake. It basically was. Yeah. When you think of trained the snake, how a story like that is copied or adapted in many ways. Because I think of, I can't think of which James Bond, but I'm sure there's been a James Bond before. With a snake coming in. With a snake coming down a piece of, piece of string from the ceiling. Yeah. You know, taking away the loft or something, catch and a snake being dropped down on a piece of string. Well, the one I don't know if James Bond was the big spied. Rolling across his chest. And I think it was like a banana spider. I don't think they're actually that poisonous book. What's a banana spider like? It's huge and hairy. It's like a tarantula. I think that's the other name for it. Talking of James Bond, it was also a gold finger. Yeah. When she was murdered by being painted in gold into toe, which apparently stopped the body from breathing. Yeah. I remember it. So unless you leave a bit at the base of the spine, I think it is. Yeah. That was okay. If the whole lock gets covered. Yeah. So it's not, it stops you sweating and you get sort of toxic. I think that's, that's the whole idea. I do. I know this because when my mum and dad emigrated to Australia on the, it was at the 10 pound. The 10 pound system. Yeah. The 10 pound bombs. Yeah. There was a little lad who died because he couldn't perspire. Oh. And when they got into really hot water, you know, it's hotter. He is going on the boat too. Yeah. So I remember my mum saying, you know, you know, the little Johnny died because he couldn't, he couldn't perspire. Well, obviously he's perts didn't know anything about it. It's very, very real thing. So, yeah. So it's that same thing applies. If you call somebody in. In gold paint. In gold paint. Yeah. I've got one here. And this is something that we don't see anymore. And that's a cane sword. A what? It's a cane with a sword in the middle. Oh, right. Oh, like a sword stick. Yeah. Ah, right. Yeah. And you used to see them in notice that. Yeah. Oh, days of, well, I went to Victoria. Yeah. I had lots of good, most, most gentlemen had a walking stick. Yeah. Have you ever been tempted to have a sword stick? Right. No, I do, I do enjoy a walking stick. Not, not because I need one, but I do enjoy walking with a walking stick. Yeah. So I make my own walking stick. Yeah. You whittled it out of a bigger walking stick, didn't it? I didn't actually whittled it. I would take some time, I imagine. No. I, I went to a cane store in London that's very famous for its canes and it's umbrellas. Oh, I remember you going there. Yeah. The next lovely window. Yes. Yeah. It's a little bit of a parahandal. Why am I not surprised? I'm just worried that you're now going to tell me, I'm going to open it up. Out came this sword. Well, I asked him the parah bit me. I asked him about cane swords and he said, you can't sell them anymore. No. Because obviously it's a deadly weapon. Yes. He said, I have got some in the back if you'd like to look at some of that when I was like, no, I better not. Is that the same as, would you want to go upstairs and see my etchings? It could be. So why do you think we're drawn to unusual weapons? Why do they stick in the mind in the way that they do? I think it's a bit like you getting us tried to guess about the ice. It leaves you wondering and you can't, for the life of you, work out. How it happened? Yes. Which is what's, it's all about murder, mystery and crime. Yes. He's trying to work out. Yes. I want to be one step ahead of the, the detective, whether it's Quaro or Sherlock Holmes. Yes. So when they, when they sort of pointed out, you think, oh, yes, that's clever. That's obvious. I was going to say one of the things that really irritates me when I watch films and television programs is when they, they have a needle and they inject it into the neck and the person just drops like that. Well, first of all, if that would only happen if you got it into the bloodstream. So you need to get it into the carotid. So you have to be very accurate with your random plunge. Oh, when they, they inject into the arm and the person collapses straight away, I've tried to get blood out of people that were moving. Believe me. So it isn't, they make that look really simple. Yes. And it's not. One of the, one of the, one of the other ones that I've found which quite intrigued me was it's a historical mystery. I've not, I've not read this. It's called the name of the Rose by Alberto. Go. Yes. Oh, I've read that. Yes. It's a cracker. Yeah. Poisoned manuscript pages. Oh. The pages of poisons and what most people do is tend to lick their fingers. Yes. To turn the page over. And as they're licking their fingers, so they're getting the poison. And it's a very old book as well. So it probably does have thick, dry pages that you wouldn't have. Yes. Very clever. Yes. Yes. Something like that sneaked into one of your boots. I think it's something similar. Oh. Yes indeed. Yeah. It's how you got the idea from. It was. I do reference the name of the Rose in there because when it's discovered, one of the characters, it's just like in that film. And then it happens on Facebook and you're all the name of the Rose. And he goes, have you got a copy? I think he also, I didn't know it was a book as well. Yes. Yes. With Sean Connery as a William of Baskerville, the monk. Yes. No, sorry. Yeah. That's, that's the film. Oh, it's the film. Oh, the name of the Rose. Yeah. Yeah. It was very good. My daughter has inherited a poison ring. Which I know isn't, isn't the actual method. It's the method of getting the poison into the drink or something. Yes. And yeah, it just, it's just a little thing at the back and you push it and it clicks open. And you can drop the poison or the tablet and then all you have to do is put it on your knee and press it and it closes again. And, you know, who would notice that? Yeah. You just think it was a cocktail ring or something. Yeah. Wow. What about that? Yeah. I know you guessed very well. Would you get on well? Yes. Yeah. And notice if she was wearing it. She's not a ring person. She doesn't wear many rings. So if she was wearing that, I'd go, can you take that off before we go out for cocktail, please, darling? So going back to the Jane Bond thing, why, you know, why do you think the unusual weapons and the gadgets and all of the, you know, the stuff with Q? Why is that such a thing? I think partly because it's unbelievable. You know, when you're watching Jane Bond, you know that none of the car chases or the weird gadgets actually exist. It just adds to that sort of taking you out of the present into another world, which is not real. Yeah. I think it's also making you a promise. You know, if Q gives James Bond some bizarre gadget, you know, darn well, that is going to get used later in the film. You've got to think about that. How on earth, you know, with the clicky panel, whatever, or, you know, the disappearing car. Yeah. And the grut thing in his watch. Oh, yes. It comes out of his watch. Yes. And usually, Jane's Bond is turning to these implements when most other people would have been dead. You know, he's been struggling for 20 minutes and suddenly remembers that he's got a poison tip in his ring or something. The laser nearly cut him in half, though, didn't it? Yes. Is that a little finger as well? I don't know, but it looked very painful. Yes. It's good. It did. Just got out of that in time. I think sometimes too. I've been going on to the more gory. I remember watching Killing Eve, which is a very gory. Yes, it is. Yes. And some of the weapons that she, I'm sure there was one where she just pulled a sort of, not so much a knife, something out of her hair, something that was keeping her hair up. Oh, yeah. Kind of a beak shop. Hat pin type. Hat pin type. Yes, it was. And stuck it in his guy's eye. That would work. Yes. Yes. But with that, it's the suddenness of it happening. Yeah. Something quite innocuous, like a hat pin, just comes out of her hair and is in somebody's eye within seconds. And it just shocks you as it's meant to. That's the thing. You know, Victorians carrying these deadly weapons, just keeping the hats on. I wonder how many women use them in self-defense, you know, when they, when they were calling. You'd think the suffragators probably did. Yeah. Two or three in your hat, wouldn't you? Oh, definitely. Yeah. And I mean, no one could take you up on it, could they? No. So, yes. Mike, you're shuffling some paper. No. I mean, I'm just looking to, I mean, I did some research about these. Another one. I'm not seeing this. It's a remake of Black Christmas. I don't know that one in 2006, and the killer sharpens a candy cane. That's what the Americans have a Christmas. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Not quite a death by chocolate. No. That's why candy. What a stab a security guard. One of the things I saw once it stayed with me ever since, because it was absolutely shocking at the time, was a couple were romancing in front of the fire. And then she said, yes, she turned her head away. And when she turned back, she had razor blades in her teeth. Oh, you watch him lovely. She cut his throat. Oh. And how was that? Oh. Oh. And it's always staying with me, because it was really, because they seem to be so in love. I expected. Yeah. So where did they come from? That came from, um, were the razor blades? Yeah. Oh, yes. She had them secreted in her clothes that were. Oh, I see. Yeah. Yeah. But she planned it all, you know, well, you'd have to. I mean, you wouldn't normally have razor blades in your kit, would you? I mean, then I was thinking, she's going to cut his tongue. I mean, does it really matter? Oh, well, I think it would matter. I think that would hurt Liberia. Oh, yes. There we go. But, um, going back to the, um, the Q thing. Yeah. Um, I had to go at writing my own kind of Q scene, um, as in James Bond Q. Um, because, um, in the Maisie Frobersha books, uh, one of my characters is going into what we might call a tricky situation. Um, is Maisie. Um, and Mrs. Carter is kind of like a mentor to her. Um, basically, you know, says, have you, have you got anything to look at, you know, to, to defend yourself with? Um, and they go through a bit of a scene. So I'll read a bit from it. I do have the gun which Lord Montgomery gave me, ventured Maisie. Mrs. Carter stared at her, then dissolved into peels of laughter. My dear, you can't possibly go into that house with a gun. What if someone finds it? You might as well announce that you don't trust your host. Unless you'd rather, he thought you were planning to shoot him. Better this way. She puts a reticule into Maisie's hands. Unpack it, please. Maisie delved into the reticule and brought out a small pouch. Inside was a sewing kit, needles threaded with fine silk, a card of pins and a tiny pair of scissors. I'm really not sure. I find a jab with a needle or a pin can work once in a tight spot, Mrs. Carter. The pins are fairly harmless. The needle with yellow thread, however, has been dipped in a muscle relaxant. It will have an effect within a few minutes, and providing you're in a one-on-one situation, you should be able to escape. The needle with red thread, which looks amazing, don't use that one unless you absolutely have to. It is poisonous. And if you need something more straightforward, the scissors are deadly sharp. "I see," said Maisie, closing the pouch hastily and returning it to the reticule. Next, she pulled out a small he did cylinder. "Should I open it?" she asked, looking at it doubtfully. Mrs. Carter laughed. "Don't worry, the worst you will get from that is a sneezing fit since it contains pepper. Beautiful for seasoning food, but also handy for throwing into an adversary's face and particularly the eyes. That will buy you at least an extra minute." Maisie put it back and drew out a pen. "What does this do?" "Well, it writes," said Mrs. Carter, but it does so in invisible ink. Easy to write a letter and include a private message between the lions or in the margins. Obviously, your needs carry a normal pen as well. Finally, Maisie extracted a small pack of hairpins. "I assume these aren't to keep my hair tidy." Mrs. Carter regarded her critically. "You do have several stray wisps, Miss Frobisher, which would certainly annoy me. However, these are for picking lots. But I don't know how to. Which is one of the reasons why I invited you to call on me," said Mrs. Carter. "I shall ask Avick to fetch some locks of standard make and more hairpins and we shall see how you get on. After that we shall move to hands on self-defense." Maisie eyed her hostess's plump form. "Oh, but I couldn't." Mrs. Carter giggled. "Not on me, you goose." "No, I shall demonstrate on Avick and then you may have the go. Don't worry, we won't hurt him. Tap at the door, sing all the Andrea of Avick with a tea tray. We shan't hurt you, Avick, shall we?" "I doubt it, madam," said Avick, gravely. "And in return, I shall not hurt either of you." "Agreed," said Mrs. Carter. "Now, if you could bring us those locks on a pack of pins, we shall begin our first lesson." "Yay!" "You know, you can get lock-picking kits on Amazon." "I'm not surprised." "I'm going to put that on me wish list for Christmas." [laughter] "As you know, I like to play around with AI." So I thought, "I wonder what chat GPT would make of me asking for some unusual weapons that could be used in future stories." "Unusual murder weapons that could be used in future stories." And these are just some of the ones it came out with. You can tell me which one you like best. "A lethal virtual reality headset that induces fatal seizures or heart attacks through specific visual patterns." Ooh! I think we like that one. "A killer swarm of drones that suffocate the victim by forming an airtight seal around his head." Ooh! "That's great." "A poisoned, temporary tattoo, which is laced with a substance that's absorbed through the skin." "Deadly noise-canceling headphones that emit a harmful frequency when activated." "That's where I thought the virtual reality headset was going to go, actually." "Yeah, yeah." "I like this one, a killer karaoke machine, which releases toxic gas when a specific song is sung." "Well, one that obviously doesn't like, if you murder a tune, it'll murder you." "Murder on the dance floor." "Killer robot vacuum." "The room bar of doom." "A cleaning robot that releases a toxic gas while operating." "It cleans up afterwards." "Murderous food delivery drone, a drone that tempers with food en route, adding lethal substances." "How would it do that?" "I don't know." "Well, you're not supposed to." "You might have to ask AI about that." "A killer keyboard. A computer keyboard that releases a contact poison on frequently used keys." "So I took one of those." "Don't hit that eighth." "I took the poisoned, temporary tattoo." "Oh, nice." "This is called The Last Impression." "Mia beamed. She admired the intricate dragon tattoo on her forearm." "It's gorgeous, SAC. I can't believe you designed this yourself." "SAC grinned. His eyes glinting behind thick, rimmed glasses." "Anything for my favorite customer?" "It's a special ink, too. Last longer than regular, temp tattoos." "Mia left the pop-up booth. SAC smiled faded." "He glasted his phone. A text from an unknown caller." "Is it done?" "Yes," he typed back. Hand trembling. Three days later, Mia's roommate found her unconscious. By the time the ambulance arrived, she was gone. The coroner was baffled. Healthy 25-year-olds don't just die. Detective Inspector Sarah Chen stared at the vivid dragon tattoo on the victim's arm. Something nagged at her. The tattoo was too perfect, too fresh for a three-day old temporary design. Chen's investigation led it to SAC's booth, now abandoned. His landlord mentioned he'd slept town suddenly. Chen dug deeper, uncovering a trail of mysterious deaths across the country. Each victim supports sporting his stunning, temporary tattoo. Miles away in a dingy motel room, SAC received another text. New target, Liverpool, blue butterfly design. He began mixing his specialized ding, adding a clear, odorless liquid. The poison was undetectable, absorbed slowly through the skin, leaving no trace. SAC paused, studying his reflection. He touched the small tattoo behind his ear. The mark of the shadowy organization had recruited him. They'd promised him so much. He hadn't known the cost would be his soul. As he packed his supplies, SAC wondered how long before the police caught up with him. Part of him hoped it would be soon. Now, you'd have to wear gloves, wouldn't you, when you were handling them? You do, I think I've said this before. I apologise for people who have heard this before, but I watched the detective series once were. It was a bike gang who all wanted the same bike gang tattoo done. A member of the gang was a tattoo artist, only they had been responsible for his boyfriend's death, and he inked them all with some of his blood that was infected. And the whole gang died gradually, one by one. Oh, I have to say, Carol, you want some love people. I wonder how asleep at night. I wonder how you sleep at night. Well, that is a possibility. One of the things with tattoos you've got to be careful about is you can get infectious diseases like hepatitis if it's not a clean needle. You're taking that one step further and actually adding something into it that is going to do the deed. It's going to kill them, isn't it? That's the thing. Something else I like is when you have an unusual weapon or means a delivery or whatever, then it turns out to be a deco distraction. Thinking about like a cure poro and I think at one point they discover a blowpipe and it's in one of the kind of the locked room type. It was in an aeroplane. Death in the clouds? Yes. Yes. Yeah. And they find that and they're trying to work out how on earth anyone could have used it without noticing. And eventually I think a cure poro reservoir, of course they didn't do it. You know, talk about draw attention to yourself, you know, much easier to just put whatever it is. I'm trying to remember if it's a noxious rule or not, you know, when we did the 10 rules of detection. I can't remember. And I think he was dead against kind of untraceable poisons with no, like, you know, you can't, you can't smell them, you can't taste them, you can't see them, whatever. We do have them now. That's the thing, you know. I mean, one of the ones I, this is a true one. This was a lady in Texas. She claimed self-defense after she killed her husband by treading on his head 25 times his stiletto heels. Wow. So he must have been a right button. That was self-defense. Twenty five. You take some balancing. This is what I'm thinking. You can't sort of do it in a rage. You've got to sort of balance to do that sort of damage. But one of the ones that has been, she practiced, like trying to walk on a watermelon or something. Yeah. Well, it can be balanced like log rolling. Yeah. And as I say, it sounds, it doesn't sound easy. No. But one of the things that has been used in detective series, and I'm sure has been used in reality are the 3D printed gun. Yes. And when I, and no 3D printing is magnificent. And it can do all sorts of things because my husband used to use it in his job. However, when I researched this for this podcast, I was absolutely shocked to see that there are kits you can get online. Once you've, you know, you've printed your gun, you can get the metal bits as kits. What was I saying? You could only use them once, I think. But they are easy to destroy because they're plastic. And if you really wanted to, you could swallow the metal bits. Yeah, I know. But you called it in theory, you know. So that's a bit, a bit scary, really. It is. You do wonder, don't you? We began this episode by talking about the success we were having with those, you know, nearly 2,000 views on episode 26. And you do wonder, today we're talking about all these gruesome ways of killing people. We just killed off whatever we were looking for. Unfortunately, my people are absolutely fascinated by things like this. Unfortunately, I am. So purely for research, obviously. Oh, of course. Oh, well, naturally, yes. I think, either if you've got anything else you'd like to put forward. I think now we've probably killed enough people, or given people enough ideas as to what they might do with that frozen leg of lamb. So if any of you have like a great idea for a short story with an unusual murder weapon, then our blog is always available for you to post. So we're about, we're about due to read some listeners stories out, aren't we, Mike? Do you know what I think? Yeah, we do have one or two people joining in with our weekly writing prompt on the blog. So if you haven't done and want to have a look at it, please, please come and visit us. Yeah, and what's that address? Only murders in my mind.wordpress.com. Well remembered. Thank you. Sorry, I put you on the spot there. The writing prompt comes out every Friday, every Friday morning, and it's a picture prompt. Boom. Just inviting you to write a story. It doesn't have to be murder mystery, anything you like. Yeah, because it's sort of narrows our field if we keep it in just murder mystery. 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