The Murder of Helen Potts: How Carlyle Harris, a Wealthy Med Student, Poisoned His Secret Wife
Helen Potts, a young woman of wealth and privilege overdosed on morphine and died in 1890 while attending a prestigious finishing school. Her husband, Carlyle Harris, a med student whom she had married in secret, had prescribed her some pills containing the drug. But the pills contained enough morphine to kill a person—and Harris knew it.