Graham Young: The Teacup Poisoner | Murder Casebook | Real Crime

Graham Young is the serial killer fascinated with poisons and toxic chemicals who began his fatal experiments at the mere age of fourteen when he poisoned his entire family. Released from jail fifteen years later he up-scaled his study, lacing cups of tea with deadly poison to a factory of workers.
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[@mainamwareri6984]

You are the David Attenborough of crime reporting and analysis. You make it so captivating. Thanks.

[@catmaxwell6691]

while I get the whole “hindsight is 20/20” aspect, placing him in an environment with easy access to chemicals was an incredible oversight.

[@vannalikehannah6776]

Gosh..I don't think I have seen a more sinister looking photograph..

[@boldchick101]

I am amazed that he was released from the hospital in the first place, to be so devious at 14 years of age only indicates better deception at an older age.

[@cdes1776]

As more victims die and/or become violently ill, isn't there a point where someone wonders, "Gee, alot of stuff keeps happening to Graham..."?

[@babyramses5066]

I watched the movie yesterday and I thought how could they just let him out, with no safeguards for relapse. But I think that we now understand psychopathy better than they did at that time. There's no cure. They cannot and should not be trusted.

[@bonniecassler7214]

I am so sick of the imperfect parent,hard childhood excuse. My mom was a control freak,and a constant nag,my peers ridiculed me for being big ,and developed for my age. I've never taken my childhood traumas out on any other living creature. That's just an excuse,one I'm sick of hearing.

[@arcdave2735]

Nah.. it isn't an excuse it's an explanation of how he became that way. Trauma's and abuse affect people differently, just because it didn't make you a serial killer doesn't mean how he became that way is an excuse. It's like saying someone being depressed because of the trauma of abuse is just an excuse because another person isn't depressed even tho that person is abused too.

[@jennifermoriarty2188]

Some people have a lower threshold and aren't strong as you or i

[@Devastator123]

But you didn’t kill people and we are not talking about you

[@tammyjackson1026]

Excuse Me Miss Bonnie Cassler but most of us had an upbringing of some of the worst and most abusive childhood unless you know exactly what that's about I suggest you keep your mouth closed or actually do research on some of the worst and abusive and most awful unimaginable accustomed child abuse upbringing

[@tammyjackson1026]

​@@rhmrr01 if you've ever been to a certain kind of abuse that many of us have been through and many of us have been through the worst kind of abuse ever unimaginable As it is said Biologically Clearly you wouldn't be saying such unreasonable replies Have you ever been through any such abuse

[@basicdesign1]

being let out of Broadmoor, they give him a job in the one of the two factories that stock thallium 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 there's a thing called "asking for it".

[@megs4193]

I thank God all the people in the world who had horrendous childhoods did not turn into killers of any kind. It's so frustrating that the human brain can go so wrong and there couldn't possibly be one answer as to why. And thank goodness for the people doing their best to find out, because....where do you even begin 💞🇦🇺.

[@cynthiatolman326]

I've seen about 3 in this series with Dineage, I knew he was familiar but I couldn't place him, then he said the Krays and the bells went off. Thallium is the most horrible, slow death and extremely painful, didn't know about antimony

[@CK8smallville]

I can’t believe his sister let him stay with her. I certainly wouldn’t.

[@itsjeninMass]

No kidding!

[@DouglasvanderMooren]

Not wrong there, he's one scarey brother hey? 🤐

[@Spook2431NYC]

Wish she had served him a nice hot "special" tea of her own.

[@jamesfiero3255]

Maybe she had a life insurance plan on her husband and child...she would just have to get her breakfast 🍵 at the diner.

[@karenelizabeth1590]

I can believe it. He was just 14 when he was locked up and appeared to want to do better. Who else could support him but his family? We know in hindsight that he was still a killer, but at the time no one could know that. She gave him the chance he needed to get back into society. He's the one who wasted it.

[@lonestar1637]

This is one of my “favorite “ true crime story, if it can be said😳😳

[@cynthiatolman326]

I understand what you mean perfectly. 🙂

[@itsjeninMass]

It's so interesting!

[@lonestar1637]

@@itsjeninMass just think of what good his genius could have done without whatever evil drove him.

[@cdes1776]

He used his intellectual prowess for evil over good. And meticulously 'researched' the dosages and effects - an evil genius.

[@troytheriot8679]

I don't understand how something that dangerous would be given to someone no matter intelligent they sound or how polite they speak which says the people in charge were not competent

[@mondo_stunts27]

I’m order to do science we have to work with things that are that harmful but it’s important to keep them under lock and key and hold people accountable. Also teach the correct scientific ethos early on.

[@troytheriot8679]

@@mondo_stunts27 I understand that but he should have been allowed to get it he wasn't a person whom was supposed to have access to it but the way he asked for it by talking nice should not have been good enough

[@chloeuntrau4588]

@@troytheriot8679 You can find deadly poisons everywhere...he should have been in a specific therapy , instead of that "let's be nice stuff".

[@troytheriot8679]

@@chloeuntrau4588 yeah but fooled the people at the institution he was in that he was a changed person when all he wanted to do was get out and go back to what he had been doing that is what the documentary said. He used the fact that he could say what people wanted too here and have them relax their guard. He was always a thinker the fact that took notes every time he poisoned someone shows that.

[@cdes1776]

And it very likely would have been expensive.

[@pazuzu1136]

Poisoners always fascinated me, for the unique fear and panic they inspire.

[@mhrgall]

that's nice, dear.

[@DH-tn5xl]

The music arranger person for this show clearly thought the visual part was secondary to the music.

[@crystalshaw8744]

ILmbo. I thought I was the only one who noticed that.

[@laurih.t.8723]

Psychopaths come from happy, normal upbringings too... So this need to say his bad childhood is what made him do it is just lazy and wrong. A psychopath is a psychopath no matter their upbringing/childhood experiences. Period.

[@gaia8840]

Eh not really. It's not because it happens also in normal upbringing ( which again the parents and family will always say he had a normal upbringing to protect themselves ), there is a high tendency for it to be in bad upbringing especially violent ones. It is obvious why. A kid who all his life feared the violence from the world tends to want to control/be the one in the same control later

[@monaebreak561]

Imagine if he looked KIND. Now that would have been truly chilling. 🤡

[@pynzlyngdohnonglait6698]

Rest in peace Molly Young (stepmother) of Graham Young and Frederick Young (father) of Graham young...

[@Charlotte74347]

These days, don't allow anyone to get you food or drink...get it yourself for crying out loud. Guy was nuts

[@aaronkritusan9397]

I don't think he committed suicide; I think he'd likely been inadvertently poisoning himself for years which damaged his heart enough to give him an early death. I prefer the irony of that possibility.

[@gussetma1945]

How did get sent to this job without a warning be sent along with him?

[@spitfire8539]

I saw the movie "young poisoners handbook" And i understand why he killed his stepmother. That was revenge! She was a bastard towards him.

[@hmac163]

Surprised he wasn’t on staff at a cigarette company

[@cdes1776]

Imagine the implications!!!

[@B1TKZH47]

Get a little tired of the ‘excuses’ or reasons these killers are given for choosing to kill.

[@myfoodstepss]

It's an analysis on why he did it, not excuses.. we all agree what he did were horrible

[@Devastator123]

It’s a professional analysis on why they do it, that’s it!

[@donnaeturner]

Killers are born. Lots of people have bad childhoods and don't turn into murderers.

[@chriscripplercruz1833]

Love the video but why are they talking in front of a collection of Nazi memorabilia

[@scooter9657]

Because Young was an espoused Nazi.

[@johnkeating9652]

Was wondering the same 😮

[@cmcmahon8551]

The kid was obsessed with the whole Nazi movement.

[@bigmac8168]

Good documentary👍

[@old1280]

How many experts are really experts

[@jimster18]

about 44%

[@itsjeninMass]

This story was fascinating. Too bad the young man didn't apply his skills to positive ends. He could have gone far!

[@augustusomega4708]

nazi

[@yukiefromoz2573]

Yea too bad he didn't put his knowledge to positive use. Could've actually made a difference. Scary that there are poisons that are tasteless and odourless.

[@johnnysechrist6313]

We're all glad that every child that's given a chemistry set won't turn into a monster such as Graham Young became.

[@r.j.penfold]

Especially the ones that were radioactive, yikes.

[@Oscarsmom28]

Um, is it really necessary to interview one of the “experts” in front of the giant n@zi flag and desk with multiple pieces of n@zi insignia/memorabilia?? 🤯

[@Mona-my5rc]

Thank you! I was thinking that the whole time. Who thought this was a good idea!😂

[@chriscripplercruz1833]

My kids immediately thought about Alice in wonderland because of the thumbnail saying tea cups

[@itsjeninMass]

😔

[@Venomous_471]

I know his story by heart 😊

[@igor-yp1xv]

His stepmother had his aeroplane model collection destroyed I can't blame him for that one lol

[@herewegoagain_8220]

If id known. I was homeless and full of hope. Stopped heroine, alcohol. Studied forcthem. Used as a human ai. Master degree in progeamming for his sister, had to learn by myself in books, but when I wanted to study programming he said i wasn't intelligent enough intelligent enough. This is how hope slowly drips away, no dopamine can get love back.

[@honorladone8682]

I love that story on the kray twins

[@cdes1776]

I love Tom Hardy playing that story on the Kray twins.

[@sharonsmalls6846]

How do you let someone have continual access to your food? If I am experiencing gastrointestinal symptoms, I wouldn't accept food from anyone.

[@JD-zd1my]

new sub here thanks for sharing the story...

[@rkh7904]

Lets hope the prison systems and psychiatric facilities censor the types of books available to their inmates now.

[@rkh7904]

@Real Aiglon why should they be allowed mobile phones? Especially having access to anything nefarious online, that is pure crazy. It amounts to letting the fox access to the poultry run!

[@tats7859]

@@rkh7904 black market you can get just about anything in prison, pay off a guard is one way, other way have a prison guard fall in love with someone and they'll even help them escape world gone crazy.

[@r.j.penfold]

Let's hope people stop writing books on "How to hire a hitman" and shit like that too. Like, yikes my guy please don't sell that.

[@barryjive1104]

An interesting story told by a presenter who, not wanting to be upstaged, is far too eager for his own screentime. The pacing suffers for it.

[@mhrgall]

Fred Dinenage is an absolute legend! He is an English author, retired broadcaster and television presenter! His television career has spanned nearly 60 years! He most certainly is NOT ''far too eager for his own screentime''!

[@lynnschaeferle-zh4go]

I was married to one just like this, seriously. He was just smarter and isn’t a killer. He’s a sadist in different ways. His main motive is revenge on women because of his stepmother and stepsister. His life and brain and love of chemistry are identical. Aside from early trauma I know we now able to find psychopathy in brain scans. We should, as early intervention.

[@alisonw9581]

2:56 what the hell is happening with that room

[@billyshane3804]

My neighbours grandfather was a prison warder who knew Young and he described him as scum.

[@curtmcg4600]

Wow great insight 💯

[@Deborah4Antiques]

A smart person is worthless or deadly if they are immoral!

[@r.j.penfold]

Well I mean, sometimes immoral smart people do figure things out that better humanity in the long term, but they're still horrible people and it's kinda like separating the art from the artists. Like "Oh, thanks for finding a cure for the common cold, we all appreciate that but um, you're still going to jail for murdering an entire household in one fell swoop."

[@Deborah4Antiques]

@@r.j.penfold I get you but it struck me funny the way you put it. Peace

[@r.j.penfold]

@@Deborah4Antiques alright lol have a nice night (it's night where I am anyways)

[@juliacaldwell7564]

I pray God takes up revenge for all of us suffering do to syco paths and evil folks secretly trying to kill us and no one believes us . God have your way now...

[@libernihilus]

Take your meds, Julie.

[@joakimlundgren7043]

Many assume that somebody cannot be nobody. Hazy.

[@mhrgall]

huh??

[@Kathy-kr1sv]

I'd suggest a lot of psychiatrists are nuts.... Self important & up themselves with self importance Easily hood winked by those intent on getting out to continue their games.....

[@Eclipse503]

Imagine this sick dude was older and was working for the Nazis.

[@billstill1794]

Just think what he could have done with Fentanyl...

[@MyTinyBalcony]

Despite the predilection for the Nazi party by the perpetrator, did the set designers really NEED to set decorate the way they did?

[@mhrgall]

lol. I know, right? Like a scene right out of Father Ted!

[@galvinstanley3235]

Only 15 years and in a hospital,not prison?in America he would get 20 in prison.

[@sherryrector2275]

What is all the Nazi things doing in The interview

[@cmcmahon8551]

He was obsessed with the Nazi movement.

[@anaso9016]

OMG... what's with the effing nazi shrine first appearing around minute 20?

[@cmcmahon8551]

The kid was obsessed with the Nazi movement.

[@Texas_Made_]

🍵👀☠️😬

[@sherrylowe8819]

graham young was a evil sick man

[@TawnyC_]

"He was at heart, completely insane." No. Psychopaths are not insane.

[@janetpendlebury6808]

Not all psychopaths are insane, but he clearly was.

[@TawnyC_]

@@janetpendlebury6808 In your opinion.

[@donnaeturner]

Yes the hell they are.

[@libernihilus]

@@donnaeturner no they're not. Insane is a legal term meaning the inability to know what was going on at the time of the crime. Psychopaths clearly know what they are doing. They are mentally deranged, but not insane.

[@lindsay5348]

Mommy deserve it . She was mean

[@theestallion818]

Mister softee mentor!

[@MacncheeseMamaa]

He looks just like that actor from American Horror Story

[@snowwhitever2336]

bob eagle bold eagle illuminati confirmed

[@Heartshackles]

I feel like if we stopped giving killers fancy almost superhero like names, they wouldn't be as keen for the ones who look for the fame as well... who would want to be "the cowardly bored man of Europe" or anything simiilar?

[@pjay951]

Love Fred Dinenage, his voice speaks to me the person .

[@josephgail204]

A real looney.

[@matthewfranks2198]

I’m glad that twerp is gone

[@sanuceanchristina3213]

Sabin Dima

[@bimkugy9805]

Antimani

[@FranciscoSouza-cw6ud]

Jesus Christ YAHWEH

[@michaelciccone2194]

Not interested in BLM infomercial during this video. What's up with cups of tea?

[@jaqueitch]

This kid is pretty astute. Follows the scientific method and everything. He should be celebrated!

[@Last.word-Sydney-]

Ummm…what

[@ashleycarr4974]

Uhmmm can we say you're a total psychopath.

[@r.j.penfold]

Um no. He's a cold blooded murderer. Idc how astute he was, he killed people cuz he wanted to see what would happen. I've had enough of people wanting to celebrate scientists who are horrible to people and animals just because they can.

[@shicruisin7004]

Well I'm sorry stepmother.....if ur going to throw away a little boy's toy plane collection....... if you'd been being mean to him since you married his dad..... I'm on his side. And Dad....he probably hated him, for supporting the step mom and not his own flesh and blood son. I get that. The sister? Who knows why hw hated her enough. One can't assume that these people were all "nice and kind" to him. Who knows what goes on behind closed doors. I could not do what he did, but I do get where he's coming from.

[@michaelciccone2194]

What's the deal with USA BLM INFOMERCIALS?

[@libernihilus]

youtube ads are algorithm-based, what you get says more about you than whatever you are watching it on.

[@adamdaichendt3838]

This was interesting but I didn't care much for the man who had a smirk on his face throughout the interview. I would have called him out on it like wtf is so amusing!?

[@BrittMFH]

I didn't notice that.

[@myfoodstepss]

Sometimes it's a personality, you continuously smile throughout the conversation, you don't realize it.. Because you genuinely a friendly person..

[@adamdaichendt3838]

@@myfoodstepss makes sense👍☺

[@r.j.penfold]

It could also be a case of attempting to lighten the mood, like when people laugh at awful things. I've gotten in trouble for laughing at inappropriate times because I just don't know how to react.

[@clintclintonforshortbonser736]

So don't release or bail these bastards, simple.