The Poisoner's Handbook(2014)

movie - first aired/released 2014-01-07 - 112 min - audience 7.7

Documentary, History

Directed by Rob Rapley

In 1918, New York City hired its first scientifically trained medical examiner, Charles Norris. Over the course of a decade and a half, Norris and his extraordinarily driven and talented chief toxicologist, Alexander Gettler, would turn forensic chemistry into a formidable science, sending many a murderer to the electric chair and setting the standards that the rest of the country would ultimately adopt.