| POISONS:
This is a list of poisons from which you will choose. Each student will
have only one poison. |
CASES:
This is a list of some of the cases that involve this particular poison.
You must research one of these indepth, but you may wish to mention
others in your presentation. Bonus: Come up with a case not listed!! |
| anthrax |
- "Amerithrax"
- in Sverdlovsk
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| antimony |
- poisoner--Dr. William Plamer,
The Rugeley Poisoner
- poisoner--Dr. Edward Pritchard,
The Philandering Poisoner
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| arsenic |
- arsenic in Bangladesh drinking
water
- poisoner--Nannie (Arsenic Annie)
Doss
- poisoner-- Cordelia Botkin, The
Scorned Poisoner
- poisoner--Mary Ann Cotton
- poisoner--Audrey Marie Hilley
- poisoner--Madaleine Smith
- poioners--Lucretia Borgia or the
Borgia family
- poisoner--Johann Otto Hoch, The
Stockyeards Bluebeard
- poisoner--Frederick Seddon
- poisoner--Velma Barfield
- poisoner--Anna Hahn
- poisoner--Arthur Warren Waite,
DDS
- possible case of Napoleon
- poisoner--Mary Frances Avery Creighton
- poisoner--Blanche Moore
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| Cantharide from Cantharidin |
- poisoner--Arthur
Kendrick Ford
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| chromium 6 |
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| cyanide (general) |
- poisoner--Richard "Iceman"
Kuklinski
- case of the Tylenol tampering
- case of Kentucky foals dying
- poisoner--Ronald Clark O'Bryan
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| dioxin |
- case of Viktor Yushchenko
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| hemlock |
- case of Socrates
- poisoner--Olympias
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| hydrobromide of hyoscine |
- poisoner--Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen
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hydrogen cyanide (gas)
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| lidocaine |
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| methyl isocyanate |
- Union Carbide and the environmental
disaster in Bhopal
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| morphine |
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paralyzing drugs
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- poisoner--Richard Angelo
- method of lethal injection
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| Parathion |
- poisoner--Christa
Ambros Lehmann
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poisonous plants used to kill
- Belladonna plant
- wolfsbane plant (Aconitum napellus)
- mushrooms
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- poisoner--Livia, wife of Emperor
Augustus
- poisoner--Henri Girard, The First
Scientific Murderer
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| potassium cyanide |
- poisoner--Dr. Michael Swango
- case of Jonestown massacre
- case of California (San Diego
county) mass suicide
- case of Rasputin
- poisoner--Sadamichi Hirasawa
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| radiation |
- Chernobyl
- case of Karen Silkwood
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| ricin |
- case of Georgi Markov
- poisoners--Tepatti and Wood
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| sarin |
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| strychnine |
- poisoner--Thomas Niel Cream, The
Lambeth Poisoner
- poisoner--Belle Gunness
- poisoner--Dr. William Palmer
- poisoner--Thomas Wainewright
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| succinylcholine |
- poisoner--Genene Jones
- poisoner--Dr. Bill Sybers
- poisoner--Jane Toppan
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| thallium |
- poisoner--Graham Young
- "Coca-Cola poisonings"--George
Trepal
- poisoner--Joann Curley
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| VARIOUS poisons--more
than one |
- poisoner--Dr. Larry C. Ford
- poisoner--Donald Harvey
- poisoner--Kristen Rossum
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