# The Perfume Bottle That Killed Her

An episode of [Skinwalker: Horror Stories](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6785756522), 23 Jul 2026, 21 min.

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The Perfume Bottle That Killed Her A paramedic was ordered to strip off his uniform in a hospital corridor, told "it could kill you" after entering an ordinary apartment. There, a man and woman had collapsed within hours of each other, their bodies failing without warning. What hidden danger turned a simple gift into a deadly weapon? In this episode, we uncover the chilling story of Dawn Sturgess, a 44-year-old woman who woke with a headache on June 30, 2018, only to be offered a perfume bottle by her boyfriend. Within minutes of spraying it, her head felt like it was splitting open, and she collapsed, never regaining consciousness. Person: Dawn Sturgess Date: June 30, 2018 Location: Salisbury, England Cause: Military-grade nerve agent Object: Perfume bottle - Dawn Sturgess, 44, sprayed a perfume bottle on her wrists, leading to her collapse and eventual death. - Her boyfriend, Charlie Rowley, found the sealed perfume bottle days earlier in a rubbish bin. - Doctors restarted Dawn's heart after she arrived at the hospital with it stopped, but she never regained consciousness. - The perfume bottle contained Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent. - Salisbury had previously seen a Novichok poisoning incident involving Sergei and Yulia Skripal three and a half months prior. To listen ad-free and access premium episodes, start your 30-day free trial at obomedia.com. OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories a scary story podcast for the late night hours. Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies. Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news. Press play on our late night horror stories and late night scary stories, from storytime horror to a full horror stories compilation or scary stories compilation real scary stories, scary stories based on true events, and dark stories to keep the lights on. © 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquiries: business@obomedia

## Transcript

[0:03] Speaker 1: A paramedic was ordered to strip off every piece of
[0:06] Speaker 1: his uniform in the middle of a hospital corridor, not
[0:10] Speaker 1: as a precaution, as an emergency. The person giving the
[0:13] Speaker 1: order said those four words with a steadiness that made
[0:16] Speaker 1: them worse. It could kill you. He had been inside
[0:20] Speaker 1: an ordinary apartment in Salisbury, England. No visible hazard, no
[0:25] Speaker 1: warning signs, just a man and a woman who had
[0:28] Speaker 1: collapsed within hours of each other, and who now lay
[0:31] Speaker 1: in separate intensive care units, machines doing the work their
[0:35] Speaker 1: bodies had stopped doing. This is a story about a
[0:38] Speaker 1: perfume bottle and about the fact that someone died because
[0:41] Speaker 1: of a gift. There is something in this case that
[0:44] Speaker 1: stayed with me long after I first encountered it, The
[0:47] Speaker 1: specific detail of how Dawn Sturgis spent her last conscious morning.
[0:52] Speaker 1: It has the texture of something ordinary. That's what makes
[0:57] Speaker 1: it so hard to let go. On the morning of
[1:00] Speaker 1: June thirtieth, twenty eighteen, a woman named Dawn Sturgis, forty
[1:07] Speaker 1: four years old, woke up on a sofa in Salisbury
[1:11] Speaker 1: with a mild headache she probably blamed on the night before,
[1:15] Speaker 1: her boyfriend, Charlie Rowley, had found something for her a gift,
[1:20] Speaker 1: he said. He held out a perfume bottle. Dawn sprayed
[1:24] Speaker 1: it on both wrists and rubbed them together. Within minutes,
[1:29] Speaker 1: her head felt like it was splitting open. Her skin
[1:32] Speaker 1: began to sweat through her clothes. By the time she
[1:35] Speaker 1: collapsed in the bathtub, she was producing foam at her
[1:38] Speaker 1: mouth and had lost consciousness entirely. Charlie performed CPR for
[1:44] Speaker 1: nineteen minutes before the first paramedic arrived. Dawn reached the
[1:48] Speaker 1: hospital with her heart stopped. Doctors restarted it. She was
[1:54] Speaker 1: transferred to intensive care and critical condition, and she never
[1:57] Speaker 1: regained consciousness. That per fume bottle had not come from
[2:01] Speaker 1: a shock. Charlie had found it in a rubbish bin
[2:05] Speaker 1: days earlier, the same way he found most things he
[2:08] Speaker 1: kept or sold. He had no way of knowing what
[2:11] Speaker 1: was inside it. No one had told him, no one
[2:14] Speaker 1: had meant for him to find it at all. Salisbury
[2:17] Speaker 1: is a cathedral city in Wiltshire in the south of England,
[2:21] Speaker 1: the kind of place with a medieval market square, tourists
[2:25] Speaker 1: photographing the spire, and the general sense that nothing particularly
[2:30] Speaker 1: violent has happened there in several centuries. That impression had
[2:34] Speaker 1: already been shattered once by the spring of twenty eighteen,
[2:37] Speaker 1: when a Russian defector named Sergey Scripaul and his daughter
[2:43] Speaker 1: Yulia were found unconscious on a park bench in that
[2:46] Speaker 1: same city, poisoned with a military grade nerve agent called
[2:50] Speaker 1: nova chok. Both survived. The method of delivery was never
[2:54] Speaker 1: publicly resolved at the time three and a half months passed.
[2:58] Speaker 1: Don Sturgis was not a spy. She was not a target.
[3:03] Speaker 1: She was a woman in her mid forties living in
[3:05] Speaker 1: a therapeutic group home in Salisbury, working through a recently
[3:10] Speaker 1: diagnosed bipolar disorder that was, for the first time in years,
[3:16] Speaker 1: being properly managed with medication. She had three children, Two
[3:21] Speaker 1: were adults, her youngest was in her mother's care, and
[3:26] Speaker 1: Dawn was building towards something her own apartment, a family reunion.
[3:31] Speaker 1: She had been planning a version of her life that
[3:34] Speaker 1: looked like stability. Charlie Rowley had been in her life
[3:38] Speaker 1: for sixteen months. He was unemployed, had a heroine addiction,
[3:43] Speaker 1: and moved through the edges of the city in ways
[3:45] Speaker 1: that kept him in contact with things other people discarded,
[3:49] Speaker 1: rubbish bins, charity shop overflows, objects left on curbs. It
[3:56] Speaker 1: was not unusual for him to come home with something
[3:58] Speaker 1: he had pulled from a skin. He thought of it
[4:01] Speaker 1: as resourcefulness. The night before Dawn collapsed, the two of
[4:05] Speaker 1: them had been in a park with friends. Charlie, under
[4:09] Speaker 1: the influence of something, had used Dawn's hair dye as
[4:12] Speaker 1: a joke. She left angry. She came back around ten
[4:16] Speaker 1: o'clock that evening, took her prescribed medication, and fell asleep
[4:20] Speaker 1: on his sofa. Sam Hobson, a friend of Charlie's, was
[4:24] Speaker 1: there too. Sam Hobson, a friend of Charlie's, was there too.
[4:31] Speaker 1: Nothing about that night registered as anything other than ordinary.
[4:34] Speaker 1: The apartment itself was what it was, syringas in drug
[4:38] Speaker 1: paraphernalia across the surfaces, hair dye boxes and make up
[4:42] Speaker 1: on the bedroom floor, the particular disorder of a space
[4:46] Speaker 1: where two people with complicated lives had been spending time.
[4:49] Speaker 1: Nothing in that apartment looked like a crime scene. Nothing
[4:53] Speaker 1: in it would have drawn your eye except later one thing,
[4:58] Speaker 1: one object on the counter that the forensic team, when
[5:00] Speaker 1: they finally arrived wearing full hasmat suits, would describe as
[5:04] Speaker 1: visually out of place, something that did not belong among
[5:08] Speaker 1: everything else. That object was still there, waiting, the way
[5:13] Speaker 1: contaminated things wait without intention, without urgency, without any awareness
[5:18] Speaker 1: of what they have already done. The morning of June
[5:21] Speaker 1: thirtieth began with something that looked from the outside like kindness.
[5:27] Speaker 1: Dawn woke around nine thirty with a mild headache. The
[5:31] Speaker 1: previous evening had ended in the usual way, a disagreement
[5:34] Speaker 1: at the park, a reconciliation at the apartment, her nightly
[5:38] Speaker 1: medication the sofa, nothing unusual. Charlie had been up before her,
[5:44] Speaker 1: and when she opened her eyes, he was holding something
[5:47] Speaker 1: out to her, a small box, a bottle of perfume inside,
[5:52] Speaker 1: still sealed. He had found it in a rubbish bin
[5:55] Speaker 1: days earlier, the way he found most things, not out
[5:59] Speaker 1: of desperation exactly, but out of habit. Scavenging was part
[6:04] Speaker 1: of how Charley moved through the world. He kept what
[6:07] Speaker 1: seemed useful and gave away what seemed like a gift.
[6:11] Speaker 1: That morning, the perfume seemed like a gift. Dawn took it.
[6:15] Speaker 1: She sprayed it on her wrists, she rubbed them together.
[6:19] Speaker 1: The next part happens fast, and it matters that it does.
[6:23] Speaker 1: Within minutes, her head was pounding, not like a hangover,
[6:27] Speaker 1: sharper insistent radiating in a way that didn't match anything
[6:32] Speaker 1: she had felt before. Then the dizziness, then the sweating.
[6:38] Speaker 1: Her body was doing things that had no reason to do.
[6:42] Speaker 1: She hadn't taken anything. Her toxicology would later confirm exactly that,
[6:47] Speaker 1: no illicit substances, only her prescribed psychiatric medication. There was
[6:54] Speaker 1: no chemical explanation available for what was happening to her.
[6:58] Speaker 1: Not yet, Charlie called the ambulance. By the time paramedics arrived,
[7:04] Speaker 1: Dawn was in the bathtub, unconscious, foam at her mouth.
[7:10] Speaker 1: Charlie had been performing CPR for nineteen minutes. Her heart
[7:14] Speaker 1: had stopped. She was reanimated. She was transferred to the
[7:17] Speaker 1: Intensive care unit at Salisbury District Hospital. Her condition was
[7:21] Speaker 1: listed as critical. Around three point thirty that afternoon, Charlie
[7:26] Speaker 1: returned to the apartment with Sam Hobson. They had been
[7:30] Speaker 1: out a pharmacy for methadone, a church event, ordinary errands
[7:35] Speaker 1: in an ordinary afternoon. Charlie had helped save Dawn's life
[7:40] Speaker 1: that morning with his bare hands, and now he was
[7:43] Speaker 1: home and there was nothing to do but wait. Then
[7:47] Speaker 1: the symptoms started, the same headache, the same sweating, the
[7:52] Speaker 1: same sudden loss of coordination that made no biological sense.
[7:57] Speaker 1: Charlie began to deteriorate in front of Sam size and
[8:01] Speaker 1: before he lost coherence entirely. He turned on Sam. He
[8:05] Speaker 1: accused him of poisoning the food, of being responsible, of
[8:10] Speaker 1: doing something to him. His voice was frantic, his logic
[8:14] Speaker 1: was dissolving. Sam called the ambulance. Charlie collapsed with foam
[8:19] Speaker 1: at his mouth and convulsions before it arrived. Here is
[8:22] Speaker 1: the detail that should have broken the drug overdose theory immediately.
[8:26] Speaker 1: Sam Hobson was in that apartment. He had been there
[8:29] Speaker 1: the night before and the afternoon after. He ate what
[8:32] Speaker 1: was there, wreathed what was there, touched what was there.
[8:37] Speaker 1: Sam did not get sick, not slightly, not at all.
[8:41] Speaker 1: A gas leak would have affected him. Contaminated food would
[8:45] Speaker 1: have affected him. Contaminated food would have affected him. A
[8:53] Speaker 1: localized airborne substance would have affected him. The only explanation
[8:57] Speaker 1: that fit the pattern of Sam's perfect health was also
[9:00] Speaker 1: the one that no one in the emergency room was
[9:02] Speaker 1: ready to consider yet, because if the cause was specific
[9:07] Speaker 1: to Dawn and Charlie and not to Sam, then it
[9:10] Speaker 1: was not environmental. It was on them something they had
[9:14] Speaker 1: both touched. That night, both Dawn and Charlie were in
[9:18] Speaker 1: the ICU at Salisbury District Hospital, both on ventilators, both unconscious.
[9:25] Speaker 1: The working assumption was still drug overdose because that was
[9:29] Speaker 1: the most familiar shape for two people from their background
[9:32] Speaker 1: presenting with these symptoms in this city. The rational explanation
[9:36] Speaker 1: held for four days. Doctor Stephen Jukes officially took both
[9:41] Speaker 1: cases on July third. By then, Dawn had been in
[9:44] Speaker 1: a coma for three days and Charlie had been on
[9:47] Speaker 1: a ventilator for the same. Jukes reviewed the time line
[9:51] Speaker 1: with a kind of clinical discipline that does not allow
[9:53] Speaker 1: for comfortable assumptions. He ruled out a gas leak. The
[9:58] Speaker 1: three point argument was clean. Sam had not fallen ill,
[10:03] Speaker 1: Charlie had left the apartment and returned before collapsing, and
[10:07] Speaker 1: no first responder had reported any unusual smell. He considered
[10:12] Speaker 1: pesticide exposure. He ordered expanded laboratory panels. On July fourth,
[10:18] Speaker 1: the results came back. Jukes was in the hospital corridor
[10:22] Speaker 1: when a staff member handed him the paper. He read
[10:25] Speaker 1: it once, then he read it again, Then he ran
[10:30] Speaker 1: The labs had found novichoke in the blood of both
[10:33] Speaker 1: Don Sturgis and Charlie Rowley novachoke the same military grade
[10:38] Speaker 1: nerve agent used against Russian defector Sergey Skripol and his
[10:43] Speaker 1: daughter Yulia three and a half months earlier in the
[10:47] Speaker 1: same city on a bench in a public park. That
[10:50] Speaker 1: case had shaken the international intelligence community, triggered diplomatic expulsions
[10:55] Speaker 1: and left the question of the delivery method technically unresolved.
[10:59] Speaker 1: The scrip had survived and the precise mechanism had never
[11:03] Speaker 1: been publicly confirmed. Now the same compound had surfaced again
[11:08] Speaker 1: in a therapeutic housing resident and her boyfriend in a
[11:12] Speaker 1: flat full of drug peraphernalia and hair dye boxes. Connected
[11:17] Speaker 1: to that first attack by nothing obvious except geography, Jukes
[11:22] Speaker 1: called the police. The call went through to counter terrorism.
[11:26] Speaker 1: Counter Terrorism called MI five. Within hours, the building was
[11:31] Speaker 1: evacuated and a coordinate a paramedic who had treated Charlie
[11:36] Speaker 1: in the field received in order to remove all of
[11:39] Speaker 1: his equipment immediately, his uniform, his bag, everythink, because the
[11:45] Speaker 1: assessment was that contact with residual material on that equipment
[11:49] Speaker 1: could still be lethal, not contaminated, not compromised lethal. The
[11:56] Speaker 1: investigation that followed produced one answer and open the much
[12:00] Speaker 1: larger question. Forensic teams returned to Charlie's apartment on July
[12:05] Speaker 1: eleventh in full protective gear. The apartment was in the
[12:08] Speaker 1: condition it had been left, syringes on surfaces, medical waste
[12:13] Speaker 1: from the paramedics still scattered across the floor, boxes, and
[12:17] Speaker 1: bottles in the bedroom. The team moved through it methodically,
[12:21] Speaker 1: cataloging and sampling everything. On the kitchen counter, they found
[12:26] Speaker 1: a small perfume bottle. Philip Murphy, the deputy head of
[12:30] Speaker 1: investigations for the counter terrorism unit, later noted that the
[12:35] Speaker 1: bottle was visually inconsistent with the rest of the space.
[12:39] Speaker 1: The apartment was cluttered in the way of a place
[12:41] Speaker 1: lived in hard layers of accumulated necessity, nothing arranged, nothing decorative.
[12:47] Speaker 1: The bottle sat on the counter with a particular incongruity.
[12:50] Speaker 1: It looked like it had been placed there rather than
[12:52] Speaker 1: left there. Inside, traces of novichoke were found at a
[12:57] Speaker 1: concentration significantly higher than what had been recovered from surfaces
[13:01] Speaker 1: in the scripple scene. The rational reconstruction built backward from
[13:05] Speaker 1: that bottle resolved one mystery and produced a horror that
[13:09] Speaker 1: is in some ways worse than the original. The three
[13:12] Speaker 1: Russian intelligence officers identified by British authorities as responsible for
[13:18] Speaker 1: the Scripple attack, who had traveled to Salisbury on a
[13:21] Speaker 1: documented cover story about visiting the cathedral, had brought the
[13:26] Speaker 1: agent into the country concealed in a modified perfume bottle.
[13:31] Speaker 1: After the operation, they had discarded it in a rubbish
[13:35] Speaker 1: spin somewhere in the city. Charlie Rowley found it the
[13:39] Speaker 1: way he found everything, because he looked where other people didn't.
[13:44] Speaker 1: That habit, which was just the shape of his life,
[13:47] Speaker 1: placed a military nerve agent in Dawn's hands on a
[13:50] Speaker 1: quiet Sunday morning. The rational explanations for what happened to
[13:54] Speaker 1: Dawn and Charlie did not fail because the evidence was hidden.
[13:59] Speaker 1: They failed because the evidence pointed somewhere that rational frameworks
[14:02] Speaker 1: are not built to accommodate a state level assassination weapon
[14:07] Speaker 1: disposed of casually recovered by a man who gave it
[14:11] Speaker 1: to the woman he loved as a gift. There is
[14:13] Speaker 1: no version of this story where everything makes sense, not
[14:17] Speaker 1: because the facts are unclear, but because the causal chain
[14:21] Speaker 1: that killed Don Sturgis passes through so many ordinary, unremarkable moments.
[14:28] Speaker 1: A park argument, a reconciliation, a morning gift, a habit
[14:32] Speaker 1: of searching through discarded things that the horror is not
[14:35] Speaker 1: in any single act of malice directed at her. The
[14:39] Speaker 1: malice was directed elsewhere. She was not the target. That
[14:43] Speaker 1: detail does not make it easier, If anything, it makes
[14:46] Speaker 1: it harder to place, because the questions it leaves behind
[14:50] Speaker 1: have no architecture designed to hold them. Who is responsible
[14:54] Speaker 1: for a death that was not intended but was made
[14:56] Speaker 1: entirely possible by the decision to leave a weapon in
[14:59] Speaker 1: a public been What accountability exists when the people who
[15:04] Speaker 1: set that chain in motion are unreachable, uncharged, and protected
[15:09] Speaker 1: by a government that denies the chain existed at all.
[15:13] Speaker 1: The three Russian officers identified by British intelligence returned to Russia.
[15:18] Speaker 1: They have never been extradited, They have never faced a court.
[15:22] Speaker 1: Russia has maintained consistently and without exception, that it had
[15:27] Speaker 1: no involvement. The bottle that closed the scripple investigation that
[15:31] Speaker 1: answered the question of how the agent was delivered became
[15:34] Speaker 1: simultaneously the object that defined Don Sturgis's death and the
[15:38] Speaker 1: clearest evidence in a case that has produced no prosecution.
[15:43] Speaker 1: When investigators first encountered it on that counter discordant, and
[15:47] Speaker 1: still it looked like something that didn't belong. It was right,
[15:53] Speaker 1: it didn't. Don Sturgis died on the eighth of July
[15:57] Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. She was remove He moved from life support
[16:01] Speaker 1: eight days after applying perfume to her wrists on a
[16:03] Speaker 1: Sunday morning. She had been unconscious for all of those days.
[16:08] Speaker 1: She never spoke again after collapsing in the bathtub. Her
[16:12] Speaker 1: youngest daughter was still living with Don's mother. The move
[16:15] Speaker 1: to her own apartment, the one that was going to
[16:18] Speaker 1: prove to her children, to herself, to everyone paying attention,
[16:23] Speaker 1: that things were genuinely changing, never happened. The reunion she
[16:27] Speaker 1: had been planning, the moment where she could stand in
[16:29] Speaker 1: her own space and show her family a different version
[16:33] Speaker 1: of her life, was scheduled for some time that summer.
[16:37] Speaker 1: There is no version of this story where that detail
[16:39] Speaker 1: does not matter. Charlie Rowley survived. He was discharged from
[16:44] Speaker 1: the Salisbury District Hospital weeks after the incident, but he
[16:48] Speaker 1: was not well enough to speak with investigators for a
[16:50] Speaker 1: long time after that. When he finally could, he confirmed
[16:55] Speaker 1: what the forensic evidence had already established. He had found
[16:59] Speaker 1: the bottle in a rubb bush bin, as he had
[17:01] Speaker 1: found dozens of objects before it. He had kept it
[17:04] Speaker 1: for days, he had wrapped it in his way as
[17:07] Speaker 1: a gift. There is something in that sequence that resists
[17:11] Speaker 1: easy framing. He did not know. There is no version
[17:15] Speaker 1: of the evidence that suggests he knew. And yet the
[17:18] Speaker 1: gesture that was meant to be affectionate, the bottle, the wrapping,
[17:23] Speaker 1: handing it to her that morning was the last link
[17:26] Speaker 1: in a chain that began in a Russian laboratory and
[17:29] Speaker 1: ended in a Salisbury bathtub. The three Russian officers identified
[17:35] Speaker 1: by British authorities flew home before investigators had completed their
[17:39] Speaker 1: forensic work. They have never been extradited. They have never
[17:43] Speaker 1: been formally charged in a British court. Russia has continued
[17:47] Speaker 1: to deny any involvement in either the Scribble operation or
[17:50] Speaker 1: the death of Don Sturgis. As of the public inquiry
[17:54] Speaker 1: that followed, the officers remain in Russia, operating under the
[17:58] Speaker 1: same cover identities they used when they entered the United Kingdom.
[18:01] Speaker 1: In March of twenty eighteen, the public inquiry into Dawn's death,
[18:06] Speaker 1: formally titled the Salisbury Novichok Inquiry, delivered its findings in
[18:11] Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Its conclusion was unambiguous. Don Sturgis was
[18:16] Speaker 1: unlawfully killed. The report named Russian state responsibility directly. It
[18:22] Speaker 1: also noted that the discarded perfume bottle, treated as disposable
[18:26] Speaker 1: operational waste by the officers who left it in a
[18:29] Speaker 1: rubbish bin, was the instrument of her death. No one
[18:33] Speaker 1: intended her specifically. That finding did not make the report
[18:37] Speaker 1: easier to read. Her family has continued to call for accountability.
[18:43] Speaker 1: Her sister has spoken publicly on multiple occasions stating that
[18:47] Speaker 1: the inquiry's findings, while necessary, changed nothing about the absence
[18:52] Speaker 1: of legal consequence. The three officers named in the inquiry
[18:56] Speaker 1: face no pending charges in any jurisdiction where they can
[18:59] Speaker 1: be reached. The inquiry report itself runs to several hundred pages.
[19:05] Speaker 1: Don's name appears in it over two hundred times. There
[19:09] Speaker 1: is one detail that has stayed with every one who
[19:11] Speaker 1: followed this case closely, and it is not the one
[19:14] Speaker 1: you might expect. It is not the nerve agent. It
[19:18] Speaker 1: is not the three officers boarding a flight back to
[19:20] Speaker 1: Moscow with the operation behind them. It is not even
[19:26] Speaker 1: the bottle sitting on Charley's counter for days completely ordinary
[19:31] Speaker 1: looking waiting it is the morning of the thirtieth of June.
[19:36] Speaker 1: Dawn woke up with a mild headache. Charlie handed her
[19:39] Speaker 1: something he had found in a bin and kept because
[19:42] Speaker 1: he thought she might like it. She sprayed it on
[19:45] Speaker 1: her wrists. She rubbed them together. She smiled. That gesture,
[19:50] Speaker 1: the one every person makes without thinking. The automatic press
[19:54] Speaker 1: of one wrist against the other after applying perfume was
[19:58] Speaker 1: the moment of exposure. It took seconds. It was entirely ordinary,
[20:03] Speaker 1: and there is no rational explanation for why a military
[20:07] Speaker 1: great nerve agent produced in a state facility traveled through
[20:11] Speaker 1: a rubbish bin and a well meaning gesture to reach
[20:14] Speaker 1: a forty four year old woman in a group therapy
[20:16] Speaker 1: house in Salisbury, England, who was planning a reunion with
[20:20] Speaker 1: her children. Some things don't need an explanation to be real.
[20:25] Speaker 1: They only need to have happened. Don's youngest daughter, the
[20:29] Speaker 1: one still in her grandmother's care, was the reason Dawn
[20:32] Speaker 1: had been working so hard that year. The apartment, the medication,
[20:39] Speaker 1: the plan. She never got to show her daughter the
[20:43] Speaker 1: new place. The perfume bottle was collected by the forensic
[20:47] Speaker 1: team on the eleventh of July, three days after Dawn died,
[20:51] Speaker 1: It was sealed, labeled and transported to a government laboratory.
[20:56] Speaker 1: It is evidence now. It will remain evidence for as
[20:59] Speaker 1: long as the inquiry and any future legal proceedings require it.
[21:04] Speaker 1: Somewhere in that laboratory, in a sealed container is the
[21:07] Speaker 1: bottle Charlie wrapped for Dawn. It still has her fingerprints
[21:12] Speaker 1: on it. This show is made by Oboe Media

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