• Arsenic and Old Lace is Based on a True CT Murder Case

  • Aug 29 2024
  • Length: 28 mins
  • Podcast

Arsenic and Old Lace is Based on a True CT Murder Case

  • Summary

  • The 1944 Cary Grant classic Arsenic and Old Lace is portrayed as a comedy involving two elderly women who poison inhabitants of their New York home. In fact, the story is based on the real-life drama that unfolded in the early 1900s in one of CT’s first nursing homes, located in Windsor. We’ll hear the extraordinary story of one of the state’s first serial killings from two representatives of the Windsor Historical Society” Michelle Tom (Library Archivist and Assistant Director) and Steph MacGillivary (Museum Educator).

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