Deaths Of The Month: February Fatales

Discover the most bizarre and botched deaths in history from the unkillable homeless man who survived antifreeze to the "Toxic Lady" who hospitalized an entire ER.

In this "February Fatales" edition of The Day’s Grimm, we dive into five extraordinary historical deaths that occurred during the shortest month of the year. You will explore the limits of human resilience, the horror of medieval execution blunders, and the strange chemistry that turned a hospital visit into a biohazard emergency. Whether it's a royal tragedy or a fatal presidential encounter, these stories prove that truth is often darker and stranger than fiction.

We break down the incredible survival (and ultimate end) of "Iron Mike" Malloy, the gruesome details of Mary Queen of Scots' final moments, and the chaotic Hawaiian skirmish that claimed Captain James Cook. Stick around until the end to see how we rank these historical milestones from "mid" to the ultimate "gold" standard of grim history.

TIMESTAMPS:

 0:00 Welcome to February Fatales: Five Deaths of the Month 
 2:37 The "Iron Mike" Malloy Saga: Antifreeze, Oysters, and Resilience 
 11:12 Mary Queen of Scots: The Botched Execution and the Hidden Dog 
 17:15 The Hawaiian Skirmish: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook 
 23:18 The Fatal Mistress: Felix Faure’s "Grand Mort" 
 28:05 Gloria Ramirez: The Mystery of the "Toxic Lady"
 34:06 Ranking the Grim: Who Takes the Gold? 

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

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

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/the-gruesome-beheading-of-mary-queen-of-scots/KT6ES7HXAEMBLTJQTSYBOYQMBU/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_James_Cook#:~:text=On%2014%20February%201779%20British,and%2017%20Hawaiians%20were%20killed.

https://www.francophilesanonymes.com/en/felix-faure/

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

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:32

Hello. Hello, hello, hello, everyone, and welcome to another thrilling episode of the day's Grim Deaths of the Month edition. February Fetales. My name is Brian Michael Day. My name is Thomas Grimm. How are you? So uh we are kicking this uh Deaths of the Month episode off early this month. I'm super pumped on it, as I know you are, Tom. Um as I know the listener and or viewers are, because this is uh, I don't know, like this is a unique thing that we do, and I don't think anybody else is out here really doing it. Um that being said, uh so we're gonna do the same thing that we always do every death of the month uh episode where we read off five in detail, five deaths of the month. Um, and then at the end, we're gonna kind of have a discussion and or arm wrestle over which ones we think should be placed where. And then honestly, I think there's a future where we like take all of our number ones and we do something fun with them one day, but here nor there. Um, so that's kind of the gist. And the five we have this week are uh titled Iron Mike, the botched execution. Also, these are not in order um that we're ranking them yet. And then we have the Hawaiian Skirmish, the Grand Mort, and the Toxic Lady. So those are the five that we're gonna get into today. Um, if you're familiar with any of these names or nicknames, uh, you know, buckle up and uh a lot of these all come from February. All of them, right? Yeah, you're a fucking that is crazy work that you're doing that now. This is a weird thing that you're into. Yeah. Uh don't.

SPEAKER_01 2:13

Somebody told me that I should add in like somebody that's born from that month from history. Like five deaths and a birth.

SPEAKER_02 2:21

Almost like a like a feast day. Like on the day that you know that we're gonna air this episode. You can do like a feast. Oh my, that's so awesome. Because you know how like feast day for saints are like normally on the day they know shit about saints. Okay, well, okay. Never mind.

SPEAKER_01 2:37

Not in the the religious circle jerk anymore.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

I get it. I get I get it, dude. I get it. Uh okay, so anyways, uh the long-awaited uh February deaths of the month. Let's kick it off. This is death number one. Death number one, Iron Mike. This is per wikipedia.org. You guys know uh, you know it, you love it. We use this website often. Here we go. Michael Malloy or Malloy, however you choose, uh, born eighteen seventy-three. Um I guess they don't have a date for when he was born, died February 22nd, 1933. Here we go. Nickname Mike the Durable or Iron Mike was a homeless Irishman from County Donegal who lived in New York City during the 1920s, the roaring twenties in the 1930s. A former firefighter and stationary engineer, he was murdered by a group of five acquiescences. Acquaintances. God, why am I going acquiescences? What am I what is happening? Oh, I don't know. Gee, I had a stroke just now. Yeah. After multiple failed attempts on his life by the men who perpetrate life insurance fraud. So we kind of go on and I'll just skip his background. Yeah, pick up one. He was an unemployed alcoholic homeless man. Yeah, in a stationary, whatever they called it. Um, so anyways, here we'll get into the failed murder attempts. Uh turner Tony Marino owned a speakeasy and gave Malloy an unlimited tab, thinking the alcoholic Malloy would abuse it and drink himself to death. Although Malloy drank for a majority of his waking day, it did not kill him. Nice, dude. Nice. Uh Merino then added antifreeze to Malloy's liquor, but Malloy would continue to drink, no problems. Uh a possible explanation for the antifreeze not killing him is the fact that ethanol blocks absorption of ethylene glycol in the liver, pr parentheses, and is used as one possible anecdote for antifreeze poisoning. That I did not know. That is interesting. So I wonder if you could drink antifreeze and then just slam a bunch of liquor. Or does it have to be like pre-liquor ingested before the antifreeze? Or simultaneously.

SPEAKER_01 5:02

That that I did not know. That is so things keep going south. Maybe we try it. Yeah, dude. So I called Dibbs on doing the antifreeze first and then the liquor, because I think I would die. And you can do liquor and then antifreeze and watch me die.

SPEAKER_02 5:17

Uh, the group of men gave Malloy raw oysters soaked in wood alcohol. Yeah, wood alcohol. The idea apparently coming from uh oh they they tried other things too. I I just saw antifreeze a bunch of times. Antifrize was replaced with turpentine, followed by horse linament, and finally rat poison uh all being mixed in. After these mixtures failed to kill Malloy, Merino mixed shots of wood alcohol in with his normal shots of liquor. This did not kill Molloy, presumably, because the normal liquor helped negate the methanol poisoning. So then we get into that same group of gentlemen, uh, then gave Malloy raw oysters soaked in wood alcohol. The idea apparently coming from Pasqua uh or Pasqua, I don't know how you say that, who claimed he saw a man die after eating oysters with whiskey. A sandwich of spoiled sardines mixed with poison and carpet carpet tracks tax, golly, was then uh was then tried. Concluding that it was unlikely that anything Malloy ingested was going to kill him quickly enough before the insurance policies ran out, the group decided to freeze him freeze him to death. Jesus. Um on an extremely cold night after Malloy drank until passing out, he was carried to a park, dumped in the snow, and had five U.S. gallons or 19 liters for the Europeans uh of water poured on his bare chest. However, shortly thereafter, Malloy was rescued by police who took him or took him to a homeless charity where he was reclothed. Um it there's more. The group attempt then attempted to kill Malloy by running him down with Green's taxi, moving at 45 miles an hour, or again 72 kilometers an hour for the Europeans. Uh this put Malloy in the hospital for three weeks with broken legs. The group presumed he was dead, uh, but they were unable to collect the policy on him. Good look at this poor piece of shit. Jesus Christ. Oh my god, this is brutal. If you're if you're watching on screen, we may have to edit that out. I don't know. That is brutal. Uh okay, so murder and legal proceedings. On February 22, 1933, after he had passed out for the night, the conspirators took Malloy to Murphy's room, put a hose in his mouth that was connected to the coal gas jet, and turned it on. This finally killed Malloy with his death occurring within an hour. He was pronounced dead of labor or low bar pneumonia and quickly buried. I bet it was quick.

SPEAKER_01 8:17

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 8:17

That was yeah, with Dr. Frank Mazella signing the death certificate. Um, holy dog shit. Yeah, doc.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

Oh my god. I read this and I was like, you know.

SPEAKER_02 8:32

Let me take a sip after that.

SPEAKER_01 8:34

Your thoughts. Dude, wild. Like, I I mean, like, how many failed murder attempts do you have to have before, you know, like you just give up?

SPEAKER_02 8:44

Can we You want to tally them or something? Before we go, no, no, no, no. I want to know Before we go to the next one. What what prompted these gentlemen to take a life insurance policy out on this uh Mr. Michael Malloy? You know what I mean? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:01

What prompted this thought where they were just like he was homeless and they wanted to get money. They put literally the definition of fucking fraud. A corrupt insurance agent's.

SPEAKER_02 9:14

Oh, see, this is the part you had me skip.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

Yeah, but a corrupt insurance agent let them put a life insurance policy on him, which equivalent to$3,500 at the time, or basically$85k in today's time.

SPEAKER_02 9:29

Yeah, I mean, that's not a small chunk of change. No. But is it worth split five ways? That's not a lot. Yeah, and then with the potential to go to prison. I don't know what insurance fraud, you know, how strict it was back then. I'm sure it was pretty loosey-goosey, I would assume, back in the roaring twenties. You know, I didn't really give a fuck. Right. Find dead bodies in the street all the time. Yeah, and there's not like uh there's not DNA. Dude, I that I have hold on, scroll, go back down to the picture of dead Malloy. This fucks me up bad, dude. Oh, so they did get arrested. Okay. Sick. I'm glad they finally got what they had coming. Uh Malloy's body during his autopsy. So what's really fucked up is like, um, and it okay, you can scroll away. I'm gonna have fucking night terrors now. Uh what's really fucked up about um the way they did it was the poisoning, the gas poisoning, right? Yeah so have you ever seen like autopsy photos of people that have died from? Don't look at any of that stuff. Carbon monoxide.

SPEAKER_01 10:32

Don't look at any of it.

SPEAKER_02 10:33

It will fucking ruin you. Because it like exactly why he looks like he was beaten to death. Right. It's because it you bloat and everything just it oh god, it's fucking dark. Okay. So that's uh that's Iron Mike, uh, death number one. Now um if you guys have had enough, uh I I assume it's only gonna get worse. So, you know, or maybe it doesn't. I don't know. But uh now we're gonna go into uh we're gonna go to nzherald.co.nz. Um and this is the gruesome beheading of Mary Queen of Scots. For sure this is about to get worse.

SPEAKER_01 11:11

Oh, this is this is a photo of her.

SPEAKER_02 11:13

Uh beautiful lady, real uh not bad-looking gal. Um, you know, this is just like um Well, let's get a let's get a snap a snippet of who she is. So when Mary of Scots was beheaded, oh, this is straight into it, uh, was beheaded, her execution was absolutely horrendous, even by 16th century standards. Mary was beheaded at uh fathering fathering Hay Castle on February 8, 1587, following 19 years of imprisonment for her role in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth Uno.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

If anything we've learned from these Death of the Month, don't plot the kill of the cards.

SPEAKER_02 11:51

Just fucking do it or don't. Jump in or don't. Don't dabble. Fucking, I don't like this guy. Bow! You know what I mean? Um, so here we go. We get into uh Mary, who was 44 at the time, was executed on orders of Elizabeth for her part in what was known as the Babington plot. Ooh, cool fucking name though. Babington plot. Again, read by uh Catholics. Dude, shout big shoots, big shoots to the to the She got busted the same way.

SPEAKER_01 12:18

Letters said to be from Mary apparently sanctioned the assassination of her cousin. And once the letters were discovered, she was put on trial for treason. Dude, I'll tell you what, that treason is a real motherfucker. Yeah, then then you know we go, this is all just like back line timeline. Get me to the meat potatoes that we were talking about. Here we go.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

Okay, yeah, here we go. So while a beheading seems like a horribly gruesome death by today's standards, back in the 16th century, it was considered an easy option compared to the other methods, such as being hung, drawn, and quartered. Like last month's. Hell yeah, dude. Big shoots to that guy. Uh Elizabeth's mother, Anne Bolin Bolan, had been beheaded by a skilled swordsman, a special privilege for a former queen. In England, there was no crime considered worse than trying to betray the crown. If you were foolish enough to betray the crown, what kind of execution could non-royalty expect? Being hanged, drawn, and quartered is probably as bad as an execution can get, and it wasn't unique to England. It was practiced across Europe. Also, I don't love how they spelled practiced with an S. Just a fucking God, that fucking pisses me off as an English guy. Anyways, um First the victim was hanged by the neck until they were almost dead. Then they were pulled behind a horse to their execution, which involved quote quartering. If you really want details, you can look it up yourself, but plainly speaking, it meant that people were cut into several pieces, often beginning with one's genitalia.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

I think they're doing that nowadays.

SPEAKER_02 13:58

Um okay. Mary was spared the worst uh the worst of the worst executions, but regardless, her beheading was horrific. Witness Robert Winkfield later wrote about the execution. First, she was forced to strip down to her underwear in front of dozens of witnesses. As she approached her executioners, one of the servants blindfolded her, so her final moments were in darkness. Witnesses claim the for the former queen had to spend time feeling around for the block so she could place her chin upon it, ready for the axe to fall. But sadly for Mary, her beheading would not be quick and easy. One executioner held her down while the other lifted the axe. But he missed. And the blade didn't go straight through her neck, forcing him to strike again. Mary apparently made a very small noise, or none at all, and not stirring any part of her of her from the place where she lay throughout the execution. After two blows, Mary's head wasn't completely severed, so the executioner had a third go at it to try and cut the one little gristle. That's a direct quote, one little gristle, that was attaching her neck to her body. Third time, lucky luckily, he lifted Mary's head for all to see and proclaimed, quote, God save the queen. Wingfield also noted when the executioner removed Mary's clothing, he noticed Mary's small dog had been hidden under her dress throughout the ordeal. The dog had was said to be so distressed, it laid down in its dead mistress's blood, which had formed a puddle on the floor. Now you had a fun tidbit about this.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

Yeah. The queen had a or not the queen, the what Mary had a wig on. So after they chopped her head off, they went to pick up the head, you know, to proclaim God save the queen, and the head fell out of his hands because it was a wig.

SPEAKER_02 16:06

Can you fuck take two minutes?

SPEAKER_01 16:09

Just imagine being in the crowd.

SPEAKER_02 16:11

Take two minutes. That's what I was gonna say. It's like take just a couple of fucking minutes to like really pull yourself out of what I just read and put yourself in that scenario. Yeah, not only nothing. Shwack. Oh, it's it's still hold hold on. This is it right here.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

Shwacking, you know, like oh that dog runs out, you know what I mean? After the fucking wig on. And then the guy picks up the head and it just falls. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:36

Botched is not even a word that I would use for this. Is just fucking horrendous, dude. This is like people are gonna have fucking trauma from this, man.

SPEAKER_01 16:44

That's that's back in the century. That's dark century.

SPEAKER_02 16:47

Can we go back up to the top? I want to see a picture of her face again. Yeah. Let's get back up to that beautiful lady. Nice. Yeah, I'd probably wear a wig if my hair looked like that too. Yeah. Curly ginger. Yeah, you little fucking. Uh okay, yeah. So that's uh, I forget whatever the cool nickname was for that one. Um this is the Hawaiian one. Yeah, dude. So this is the uh the Hawaiian skirmish that we spoke about.

SPEAKER_01 17:13

Yeah, on Valentine's Day.

SPEAKER_02 17:15

Yes. Um, yeah. So Captain James Cook. Uh again, our source, you know it, you love it, Wikipedia.org. Here we go. Death of James Cook. On February 14th, 1779, British explorer Captain James Cook, not to be confused with Captain Hook, was killed as he attempted to kidnap Oh Jesus. Quantalanalupu. Quantalanalupe, uh the ruling chief Alanui of the island of Hawaii, and hold him hostage for the return of a cutter type of boat. Okay, of a cutter, which Hawaiians had stolen. As Cook and his men attempted to take the chief to his ship, they were confronted by a crowd of Hawaiians at Kalikalika Leika Bay, seeking to prevent Kwanalatalupu from leaving. In the ensuing confrontation, Cook, four British Marines, and seventeen Hawaiians were killed. Good God. In January 1778, the year before, during his third Pacific voyage, uh Cook had become the first known European to visit the Hawaiian Islands. His expedition returned. Yeah. His expedition returned to the islands. Uh returned to the islands, January 1779. What's up?

SPEAKER_01 18:44

Well, it says relations between the British and the Hawaiians were initially good as Cook's expedition had arrived during the Maha Ma what a however you said. Makahiki. Makahiki season. Yeah. A celebrate a celebrate a celebration of fertility and the god Lono, right? Oh, interesting. So when he arrived, the Hawaiians called him Lono and treated him with reverence. Scholars divided what they had and considered him like a god, like a deity, as it says here. That's actually pretty sick. So like he shows up and they're like, Oh, this is a god of fertility, you know, like party. Yeah, what up, they're like, What up, homie? And like they like they were like partying with him and all that shit. And then, of course, just like you know, when the Europeans came to the Americas, a lot of them started to die and get sick.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:32

Yeah. So then he leaves again. He was handing. He was probably handing out some blankets. Right. I just wanted to fill in that that backstory of like it didn't cover all that.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

So Okay, okay, Roger that. Um, so then what do we pick up here? Cook's uh Cook's expedition left the bay um on February fourth, but were forced to return a week later after one of its ships was damaged in a gale. Uh however, the Makahiki season had ended and tensions between the British and the Hawaiians increased. A series of thefts by Hawaiians and violent reprisals by the British culminated in the theft of the cutter, and Cook's attempt to take Kalana Lotalupe hostage for it for its return. We gotta come up with a better name than that. Uh after Cook was stabbed and beaten to death in the following affray, his body was dismembered by the Hawaiians and distributed to their chiefs, a mark of respect for high ranking for a high ranking adversary. Following reprisals by the British, in which uh several more Hawaiians were killed, Cook's remains were returned to the British and were buried at sea with full military honors. What the fuck? Dude.

SPEAKER_01 21:04

Oh just a bunch of savages fucking. Let me get that foot. Yeah, let me can I get that torso? Yo, can I get that head? It's like collecting all the like all seven of the and then a fun fact.

SPEAKER_02 21:25

Um well, I guess they only dismembered Cook. A lot of people died in that skirmish, though. Right. It was like on uh get off the Makahiki thing. We'll touch base on that in a second. But yeah, Cook and four British Marines were killed. Yeah, but they took 17 with them. Good right. Right. Yeah, dude, you're crushing it. That's a win in my book. However, I wonder if they dismembered any of the Marines, and then if they did, like, did we mix up a foot here and a leg there? You know what I mean? A little Frankenstein situation. Yeah, it really didn't clarify. Now go to the mock. You had it pulled up, and I just want to clarify. The Makiki season is the ancient Hawaiian New Year festival in honor of the god Lono of the Hawaiian religion, which we kind of touch based on. Right. And then obviously they thought he was Lono, which thank you for filling in that backstory. That helped make a lot more sense.

SPEAKER_01 22:16

Yeah, uh Lono is the god associated with fertility, agriculture, rainfall, music, and peace.

SPEAKER_02 22:22

Everybody getting knocked up. Just smooth jazz and bitches getting pregnant. Something like that. Yeah, dude. So shout out to Makahiki and uh Lono. Yeah, man. Pork cook. Jeez, could you imagine? Just getting the shit kicked out of you.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

Stabbed. Stabbed. And then dismembered. Like you're some plotter against the crown in Europe.

SPEAKER_02 22:48

That's brutal, dude. Did you pick this because of the flags on this one?

SPEAKER_01 22:53

I don't. So are we on to If I would have saw the flags, I would have picked a different article.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

Is this Felix? Felix 4? Fare. Fare? Fora. Um okay. So, anyways, we're moving on to uh death number four. Uh, this is per Franco Files Anonymies. Anonymies. Anonymies.com. Yeah, that's tough. Uh, okay, so anyways, I attempted. Links will be in the description uh so we don't get sued. Um, and this was last updated on 12 1, 2024. The fatal mistress of Felix Four, Fower. I'm gonna go with Fower, because that sounds that sounds right. Uh France is in turmoil over Francois Francis Francis I don't know. Francis Hollande's new love affair. While we have just buried Ariel Sharon, the former prime minister, who died from a fatal stroke he suffered in his office about eight years ago. There seems to be no connection between the cases, but a brief look into French history can provide us with an interesting connection between the two. The lover who killed me. To do this, we must go back about 115 years in in time to February 16th, 1899. President Fran France at President France at the time President of France, Jesus Christ. President of France at the time, Felix Fower, was was there until uh who until now had been known mainly for his opinions on French cars. What a stupid thing to be fucking for stinky. Yeah, what a stupid thing to be fucking known for.

SPEAKER_01 24:42

He just basically complained about their uh their automotive industry and uh anticipating many generations of Israelis who thought exactly the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 24:54

Um, and so he was supported, he was known for that, uh, and the support he gave to the French army during the Dreyfus affair. However, that day, Felix Fower, I'm just gonna say Felix, Felix would leave an in an indelible, indelible mark on the history of France and not necessarily on his own volition. It all started when the president, who was apparently bored with his job, decided to summon his mistress, Margarete Steinhale, to an quote, urgent pr presidential meeting, end quote, at the elite at the Elyse Palace. After the lady ar now she's just after the lady uh after this bitch got here, uh the doors to his office were closed. And the office staff were asked to quote vacate the premises, end quote. However, sometime later, screams of terror were heard from the president's office. His personal assistant, who was the first to enter the office, found the following picture. Mrs. Steinhill was the only partially clo was only partially closed while the president lie lay dying on the couch. The doctors had no choice but to diagnose a fatal stroke, which caused a massive brain hemorrhage, and the president died that evening, thus saving France millions of francs. I don't know why, I don't get it. Why did they save him millions? Anyways, um that same day, rumors began to circulate about what really happened in the presidential office. The main rumor was that the president had suffered a stroke while his mistress was performing oral sex on him. And this created quite a few vicious wordplays, which in order to understand, it is necessary to know that the verb pomper in French slang means to receive oral sex. What the fuck?

SPEAKER_01 26:50

Uh the future president Clemet Sue Clem Clemency, whatever, saying that he died trying to live like Julius Caesar but died like Pompeii.

SPEAKER_03 27:04

Pomper Pompeii.

SPEAKER_01 27:06

And then she was nicknamed Le Pompey for what or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 27:12

Fenubre.

SPEAKER_01 27:13

Right.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

The name that the name of the shops located near cemeteries where funeral bouquets are sold. However, if we use the slang interpretation of the verb pomper, her nickname can also be translated as Fatal Blow Jab.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

Yeah. I had to include that one. It was too good not to.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

That's brutal, dude. Um what did you uh I don't even know what you nicknamed this one, but I I like it. I I like this one. I like that one a lot.

SPEAKER_01 27:42

I also like nicknamed it to the side, like Deadly Head.

SPEAKER_02 27:45

Oh, I like that. Dead Deadhead, Deadly Head. Nice, dude. Um, okay, fifth and final toxic lady. Yeah, fifth and final. Toxic Lady. Um, so if you're just now joining us, you have missed four really horrific deaths so far. Um, and we're going into the fifth and final here. Here we go.

SPEAKER_01 28:04

Same source.

SPEAKER_02 28:05

Same source. You know it, you love it. Yeah, different from the last, but three out of the five ain't bad, ladies and gentlemen. Wikipedia.org. Here we go. Um, death of Gloria Ramirez. Uh Gloria Cecilia Ramirez, born January 11, 1963, passed away February 19, 1994. Damn. I was I was born. I was a part of this. Nice. Uh she was an American woman who was dubbed the quote toxic lady or quote toxic woman uh by the media when several hospital workers became ill after airborne exposure to her body and blood. Ramirez had been admitted to the emergency room suffering from late-stage cervical cancer. While treating Ramirez, three hospital workers fainted and others experienced symptoms such as shortness of breath and muscle spasms. Five workers required hospitalization, one of whom remained in an intensive care unit for two weeks. Good God. Ramirez herself died from complications related to her cancer shortly after arriving at the hospital. The incident was initially considered to be a case of mass hysteria. An investigation by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory suggested that Ramirez had been self-administering dimethyl sulfoxide or DMSO as a pain treatment. The oxygen from the mask provided by the paramedics during her transport to the hospital most likely converted the DS the DMSO into dimethyl sulfate, DMS, a highly toxic and carcinogenic uh alkylating agent. Although dimethyl sulfate has a very low vapor pressure at body temperature, it is believed to have transitioned to a gaseous state due to the vacuum inside the uh vacuiner. I don't know what that thing is. Um, this is similar to how water boils at a lower temperature when exposed to lower pressure. Uh, this theory has been endorsed by the Riverside Coroner's office and published in the Forensic Science International. All my fucking science nerds out there, dude, get in here and get some, dude. A lot of science happening in there. So, do you know about that? How like water will boil? Water boils at like 220 degrees Fahrenheit or something like that. Right? So, but if you put water in a cup in a closed container and you decrease the pressure in that can in that sealed container and then add a heat source to the water, it will boil before 220, and that's kind of what they're talking about.

SPEAKER_01 30:53

You can add salt and it boils at a hotter temperature.

SPEAKER_02 30:57

Yeah, and that's ionization, that's a little bit different.

SPEAKER_01 30:59

Yeah, but um that's wild, right?

SPEAKER_02 31:02

Yo, crazy, crazy salt.

SPEAKER_01 31:05

I thought it was funny that like when they add oxygen to it or whatever, that it highly toxic and carcinogenic, so she was just like spreading her cancer.

SPEAKER_02 31:14

Yeah, yeah. And honestly, if you think about it, if she's taking this uh dimethyl sulfoxide, and then you know, as she's intaking oxygen into her body, you're you're exacerbating the cancer that you already have, right? Think about it. If it causes a gaseous fume that can with oxygen and she's breathing in oxygen, exactly. So as you're pulling it in, you're adding oxygen into the system, you're just exacerbating your cancer. This is probably why her death was probably very horrific. Yeah, that was probably very awful to go through. Um, very, very cool. I'm very this is fucking this is might be my number one, dude. Are you serious?

SPEAKER_01 32:00

A big time.

SPEAKER_02 32:07

I'm like Bill Nye, dude.

SPEAKER_01 32:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:09

Um, so yeah, dude. Um that's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot to take in. That's a lot of so folks at home. If you just went through this together with us, I mean Yeah, put your ranking in the comments. Yeah, seriously. Or if you've heard of one of these five, um, we'll we'll cruise through them here in a second, a brief summation. But um, yeah, if you've heard of one of these deaths before, or maybe you're familiar with that time period, or maybe that locale, or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 32:36

Or you know how to speak Hawaiian.

SPEAKER_02 32:39

Yeah, if you know anything about Malika lika lika lickal, or however you say half the shit that was in that article, uh, for Captain James Cook.

SPEAKER_01 32:46

I think Captain James Cook is number five for me. Or do we want to do a brief summary real fast?

SPEAKER_02 32:52

Yeah, let me run through these real quick. So, uh, and again, leave anything in the comments, dude, if you know anything about these folks or places or time frames or whatever. So running through them in the order that we read them. We've got Michael Malloy, the unkillable man, the insurance fraud.

SPEAKER_03 33:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:06

We've got Mary, Queen of Scots, the botched execution. She was wearing a wig. Um, we've got Captain James Cook, the Hawaiian skirmish, uh, where some Marines died and a boat was stolen. Um, then we've got Felix Fower, the Grand Mort. Uh, that gentleman died receiving head. Um, killer head. There's your note. Yep. Uh and then finally we ended on honestly, a very science sciencey one with uh Gloria Ramirez.

SPEAKER_01 33:42

Actually, uh Killer Head's probably five for me. No, really? I mean it's just not as like big as the others.

SPEAKER_02 33:50

And then the years in that same order were 1933, 1587, 1779, 1899, and 1994. Big shoots to the 90s babies out there. Okay, I mean let's get through five or four. Let's start here. Let's start. We'll go from bottom to bottom to top, like we did last month.

SPEAKER_01 34:06

Um, so you're saying you're saying either either the Hawaiian skirmish or killerhead for five.

SPEAKER_02 34:11

I don't know. They both kind of low-key very mid for me. I was shocked.

SPEAKER_01 34:15

I I think like the head one is lower tier. So I think we put that as five. Just because there's more jokes to be made with the Hawaiian skirmish of like the fact that like he was celebrated as a god, and people started dying, and then he came back and they stole like a boat, and then it goes to war with them over it, and then they like beat him and kill him, and then like some poor guy has to go to all the chiefs to collect the parts.

SPEAKER_02 34:38

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

So I think I'm with that.

SPEAKER_02 34:41

I'm with that. Yeah, deadhead is five. So Felix Fower from uh 1899, he's number he's coming in at fifth.

SPEAKER_01 34:47

Right.

SPEAKER_02 34:48

Uh, then we got Captain James Cook from 1779 visiting from uh England to the Hawaiian Islands, right?

SPEAKER_01 34:55

Coming in at uh fourth. This is where I'm gonna argue.

SPEAKER_02 34:58

This is where it's gonna get dicey for me. Um okay, let me just say my thoughts.

SPEAKER_01 35:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 35:04

I'm gonna god damn. The execution one's rough, dude. I'm you're gonna love this. I'm gonna go Gloria Ramirez at three. Yep, I will completely agree with that.

SPEAKER_01 35:15

Because it should just really technically died of cancer. That's what you want. Cool story. Other people got sick.

SPEAKER_02 35:21

It's cool if you're it's cooler if you're into science. Yeah. It's cool for all my science chemistry fucking nerds out there. Don't don't use that for a pain. Yeah, don't fucking do that.

SPEAKER_01 35:33

But like in reality, she just died of cancer and like five other people passed out and got sick.

SPEAKER_02 35:38

Yeah. Well, they might have cancer now. We don't know. Uh so yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna go uh I'm gonna go 1994 Gloria Ramirez coming in at uh coming in with the bronze. Now this is for the silver. For the silver. This is I will physically arm wrestle you for this. This one's tough. It is though. No, I don't think it's even a question. Really? I don't. I think that the story of Iron Mike is phenomenal. Get it twisted. Hardcore silver. I love a botched execution.

SPEAKER_01 36:16

I I'll probably agree. Think about the comedic. I just yeah, like being in the crash. Yeah. Like, like Iron Mike is like a crazy story. You know what I mean? Like they tried to kill him so many times. Yeah, dude. You know, so so many times.

SPEAKER_02 36:33

So we are both on the same page. Um Unkillable Iron Mike is coming in with the silver, and we're going lady with a wig and a fucking shih su in her crotch for gold. So uh there you go, folks. There you have it. We'll run through the order real quick. So coming in first place, Mary, Queen of Scots, botched execution, hiding a dog in her cooch, also wearing a wig, took three schwacks to take that head off. Right. She got a big neck. Yeah. Uh coming in in second place, Michael Malloy, the unkillable man. Uh super dope story. Poor bastard looked like shit when he finally died. Um, coming in in third, 1994, Gloria Ramirez for all my chemistry nerds out there. Uh, treated herself uh for pain meds with this dimethyl stuff, the DMSO exacerbated cancer. She died, made a bunch of people sick. Um, coming in at fourth place, Captain James Cook visiting the Hawaiian Islands from England.

SPEAKER_01 37:33

Treated like a god and then dismembered later.

SPEAKER_02 37:35

Treated like a god and then got his then got got to see God.

SPEAKER_01 37:40

Bro, had to collect all six pieces of them to be buried. Dismembered like a dragon ball.

SPEAKER_02 37:46

And then the fucking pompous pompe, dude. The killer head, killer head, Mr. uh Felix Fower, 1899. Yeah, dude. That's a good run. That's a good run, man. I'll tell you what, that's a solid selection. It's a solid. I honestly who did we put at five? Felix.

unknown 38:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:06

I'm flipping and flopping. I feel like Captain Cook could have gone five, too.

SPEAKER_01 38:10

Yeah, but his story's a little more impressive.

SPEAKER_02 38:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:13

I think actually, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:15

Yeah, it's a little more impressive. Yeah. Um, so yeah, if uh all these links will be in the description along with like the their names and then the link that we used for uh reading off today. So get in there, check it out. Or if there's any like history buffs or or like some serious death nerds out there that want to like one-up us and correct us on some stuff, feel free to hop in the comments. Do that, man. Um I don't have anything else, man. I really, really don't.

SPEAKER_01 38:40

Uh that's been uh February Fetales.

SPEAKER_02 38:43

Yeah, that is uh indeed another thrilling episode of the day's grim. Uh yeah, Deaths of the Month episode. February. February Fetale. My name is Brian Michael there. My name is Thomas Graham. Thank you guys so much. Like, subscribe, share, tell your friends. Another one bites the dust.

SPEAKER_00 39:01

Another one bites the dust. Another one bites the dust. Another one bites the dust. Another one bites the dust.