Enlarge / Two recovered and restored portraits of nineteenth century Portuguese doctor Vicente Urbino de Freitas, suspected of poisoning a number of of his spouse’s relations within the “Crime of Flores Road”—Portugal’s first main forensic case.
Ricardo Jorge Dinis-Oliveira, 2019
On January 2, 1890, a Portuguese man named Jose Antonio Sampaio, Jr., died in horrible agony whereas staying on the Grand Lodge de Paris in Porto, Portugal. The son of a rich and extremely revered linen service provider, Sampaio Jr. confirmed indicators of poisoning in his last hours, together with blood in his vomit. He was attended by his brother-in-law,