Mad Science: The Murder of Paul Maasland

Michel de Montaigne once wrote that obsession is the wellspring of
genius and madness. If today’s story isn’t a flawless example of
that, then I don’t think there’s ever been one. It’s almost a
cliché that genius is often tinged with something dark. Geniuses do
tend to be obsessive people, and surely by now we true crime fans
have seen what obsession can do to human morality. It can squash it
like a bug, more or less. In the story we’re about to tell you,
obsessive genius crashes head-on into naïve idealism, and eleven
years later, the people who witnessed it are still picking the
shrapnel out of their hair.

Sources:
https://torontolife.com/city/todd-howley-the-killer-inside-muskoka/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/algae-at-centre-of-mysterious-crime/article29578436/

ID’s “A Lie to Die For,” episode “Killer Inventor”

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