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This episode we are hired by hilarious comic Sumit Swami to solve a case for him down in the Antarctic.

The only unsolved potential murder in the winter desert that is the Antarctic.

The poisoning of an Australian working at a U.S. base in the part of Antarctica that New Zealand has claim on

This is the case of Rodney Marks

And it can now be considered solved. Cause we solved it, easily.

And we learned so much during this case. Stuff like a Russian murder over a game of chess, the band “The Changelings” and how John Carpenter makes documentaries, not science fiction.

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All we needed to solve this case was to look and study the following websites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Antarctica

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica

https://www.theworldcounts.com/populations/continents/antarctica

In 2000, Rodney Marks was hit with a mysterious illness at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. He died shortly thereafter, and the cause was determined to be Methanol poisoning, How he came to ingest the chemical, and the facts around his death, remain unknown.
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https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/579732/mysterious-death-rodney-marks-scientist-who-was-poisoned-antarctica

https://allthatsinteresting.com/rodney-marks

https://www.mensjournal.com/travel/a-mysterious-death-at-the-south-pole-20131125/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Marks

https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/how-antarctic-isolation-affects-the-mind/

https://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/press/00/pr0032.htm

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/death-on-the-ice/3RWLNBPZA7BTMNWMSDK4RT5HPE/?c_id=1&objectid=10561811

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mf8d_eWD5hcJ:www.igpp.ucla.edu/public/mkivelso/refs/PUBLICATIONS/polar%2520death.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-Antarctica-showing-territorial-claims-as-of-2015-Map-data-from-Natural-Earth_fig2_328838158

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