Annie Dookhan was the highest producing chemist at the William A. Hinton State Drug Laboratory before being arrested in connection with one of the largest crime lab scandals in US history. Join Tab and Carly in their debut episode as they take a deep dive into this historically bad story.
Case Sources:
- https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/timeline-of-events-in-disgraced-mass-chemist-case
- https://sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/why-did-annie-dookhan-lie/
- https://vfl.vermont.gov/programs/drug-analysis/color-spot
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/massachusetts-lab-tech-arrested-for-alleged-improper-handling-of-drug-tests/
- https://www.masslive.com/news/2012/10/for_mass_lab_chemist_annie_dookhan.html
- https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/summa-cum-laude.asp
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/01/metro/nearly-decade-after-annie-dookhan-state-drug-lab-scandal-fallout-is-growing/
- https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/563115/statement-of-the-case-dookhan.pdf
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/12/17/annie-dookhan-indicted-counts-obstruction-justice-due-court-dec/SgtVlcusGXCYcCaMA7V4JJ/story.html
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/annie-dookhan-chemist-at-mass-crime-lab-arrested-for-allegedly-mishandling-over-60000-samples/
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/11/22/annie-dookhan-former-state-chemist-who-mishandled-drug-evidence-agrees-plead-guilty/7UU3hfZUof4DFJGoNUfXGO/story.html
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/04/13/state-reaches-agreement-another-dookhan-lawsuit/kLx7VlMZ0Rvac3FMf5eyzI/story.html
- https://www.wbur.org/news/2012/09/28/chemist-dookhan-charges
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/01/metro/state-agrees-repay-thousands-defendants-who-were-convicted-based-evidence-analyzed-by-disgraced-chemists/
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/04/12/annie-dookhan-key-figure-state-lab-scandal-released-from-prison/lp7q98UmWKucv4F7O3R4DI/story.html
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/06/21/judge-orders-dookhan-pay-million-wrongly-convicted-man/kkSJCH6V0sLgYRAg32hO6I/story.html
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/11/16/sjc-hear-arguments-dookhan-crime-lab-scandal/bIg0k9QwoKg3lfsopqKTCM/story.html
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/04/12/numbers-the-toll-annie-dookhan-case/h7dmLNvReB278kQg0zlWGJ/story.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/us/annie-dookhan-massachusetts-convictions.html
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/25/metro/nearly-110-drug-convictions-vacated-connection-with-annie-dookhan-scandal/
- https://www.baystatebanner.com/2023/01/11/payouts-slow-to-come-in-drug-lab-settlement/
- https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/02/22/massachusetts-dookhan-hinton-drug-lab-cunha
- https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/massachusetts-high-court-disbars-top-prosecutor-drug-lab-scandal-2023-08-31/
- https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/02/22/massachusetts-dookhan-hinton-drug-lab-cunha
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/13/metro/annie-dookhan-took-blame-state-drug-lab-scandal-she-wasnt-sole-bad-actor-new-documents-show/
- https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a31994111/annie-dookhan-now-how-to-fix-a-drug-scandal-netflix-true-story/
- https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/04/29/rollins-massachusetts-drug-lab-scandals
- “The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science” by Sam Kean
- Netflix’s How to Fix a Drug Scandal
Historically Bad is created and produced by Tabitha Festa and Carly Sullivan.
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