Professor Quaalude

John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty positions at Yale, Duke and NYU, before surprising everyone with a series of increasingly bizarre crimes.

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Peter Kobel’s book is The Strange Case of the Mad Professor (globepequot.com/9780762773770/strange-case-of-…).

This episode was first released in 2019.

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