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The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford

Robert W. P. Cutler M.D.

Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, died in Honolulu in 1905, shortly after surviving strychnine poisoning in San Francisco. The inquest testimony of the physicians who attended her death in Hawaii led to a coroner’s jury verdict of murder―by strychnine poisoning. Stanford Universi...

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The hosts said the 2003 book revived interest in Jane Stanford's case and challenged the longstanding belief that she died of natural causes.

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It just kind of went cold until a writer named Robert W.P. Cutler, who was a neurology professor at Stanford and a physician, put out a book called The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford.

— Episode: The Murder of Jane Stanford

Episode: The Murder of Jane Stanford

The hosts said the 2003 book revived interest in Jane Stanford's case and challenged the longstanding belief that she died of natural causes.

"

It just kind of went cold until a writer named Robert W.P. Cutler, who was a neurology professor at Stanford and a physician, put out a book called The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford.

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