Solved : Bogle-Chandler murders
According to a documentary on ABC TV last night, the mysterious deaths of Gilbert Bogle and Margaret Chandler, on New Year’s Eve 1963, may not have been murder after all. The theory posed in the show was that they died of hydrogen sulphide poisoning. I didn’t see the show, so I’m going from what has been said in the papers. Apparently Bogle and Chandler, went down to the riverbank beside the Lane Cove River in Sydney, for a root, and chose a hollow where unfortunately for them, a high concentration of hydrogen sulphide gas had gathered, having escaped from a sewerage overflow vent into the river. Rather than being overcome by lust, the gas quickly overcame them, and they died where they lay.
Now I have a problem with this theory - hydrogen sulphide is not known as “rotten egg” gas for no reason …it stinks. You’d have to be very horny to miss the fact that you’d just walked into a very toxic fart cloud.
Maybe the mystery is not solved after all though. Police say they’d discounted the theory back in 1971.
Next mystery to be solved on TV - the Beaumont children?
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Now I have a problem with this theory - hydrogen sulphide is not known as “rotten egg” gas for no reason …it stinks. You’d have to be very horny to miss the fact that you’d just walked into a very toxic fart cloud.
Maybe the mystery is not solved after all though. Police say they’d discounted the theory back in 1971.
Next mystery to be solved on TV - the Beaumont children?
Technorati Tags: Bogle-Chandler murders, Gilbert Bogle, Margaret Chandler, unsolved murders, hydrogen sulphide, Beaumont children
September 9th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
Actually no, as they explained in the show, hydrogen sulphide, if inhaled in large amounts, actually anesthetizes the human brain’s ability to recognize scent. And they’d have to have inhaled the hydrogen sulphide in just such large amounts in order for it to have been able to kill them. The original coroner noted - but did put two and two together - that the couple’s blood came up an unusual purple color; an unusual purple color being the first indicator of hydrogen sulphide poisoning.