Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Ch 8.) Toxicology

State the poisoning case that you have chosen to do your research project on. Summarize the case very briefly and tell us what format you will be presenting it in. Finally, tell us why you chose this case in particular. Thanks for sharing with all of us and good luck with your research!

80 comments:

taybouchard said...

The case that I am working on is the Tylenol Case in Illinois in 1982. There were many deaths, but the case has not yet been solved. The man that did it has spent 12 years in prison.

Chelsea22 said...

The case I chose was the O'Bryan Case in which Ronald O'Bryan AKA "The Candyman" killed his son Timothy for life insurance by poisoning the candy he gave him. I chose this case because it was interesting and it started up the fears lots of parents have about their kids getting poisoned by Halloween candy.

Isaac said...

I chose the case about Grigori Rasputin in Russia. He used "magic" to heal people, the noble family got sick of it, so they poisoned him a bunch, shot him four times, clubbed him until he passed out, threw him into the freezing river in the middle of winter, and he died of hypothermia the next morning. I plan on acting this out on video camera. I chose this case because it sounds freaking amazing.

Lucas said...

A women killed her kid (alcohol poisoning) by feeding him booze to stop him from crying.

J.Walker20 said...

Cynthia Sommer killed her husband by poisoning him with arsenic to get breast implants.

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Laura Plourde said...

The case that I chose to work on was Lydia Trueblood. She killed 5 of her husbands, one brother in law, and her daughter, all with arsenic. Her motive was to collect the life insurance of all of her victims. I will be presenting my case in a large brochure.

samantha landry said...

The case that I am working on is the Harold Shipman case. There were over 215 deaths and he was sentenced to life in prison on count of fifteen murders.I choose to do this case because I want to learn about how he was able to commit so many murders and not get caught for such a long time.I will be presenting my case in a large brochure.

Shelby Pelletier said...

The Case I am doing is the O'Bryan case. It is the case where Ronald Clark O'Bryan (aka the Candy man) poisoned his son's pixie stix to get life insurance money on his son Timothy. I choose this case because i believe it is very interesting how a man could kill his on son for money. I will be presenting it in a book like form

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Jessica Sirois said...

The case that I have chosen is the poisoning of the Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. He thought that he was poisoned by President Vladimir Putin because he had accused Putin for the order of the assassination od Anna Politkovskaya. Further infomation will be presented by a Power Point. I chose this case because this case could be the beginning of an era of nuclear terrorism.

Zachthealmightybadass69 said...

Ill be doing my project on the mass methanol poisoning in Nicaragua. Do to using a less expensive industrial methanol in making their alcohol instead of ethanol 801 people were hospitalized, 15 were permanently blinded, and 45 died. Methanol being an extremly toxic alcohol found in windshield washing fluid, de-icers, and paints, acidifys the body and sends most people into a metabolic acidosis. In this state patients CAN NOT recover even with state of the art care. Which i thought was pretty cool.

Sasha Renee Valcourt said...

The case I chose is Georgi Ivanov Markov who was assasinated by being poked in the leg by an umbrella filled with poison.

Kayla said...

I chose a case in which a husband poisoned his wife with ethylene glycol, a poison found in antifreeze. I found this interesting because it was kind of crazy why he did this.

koleary9 said...

The case i picked was the case of Ronald Clark O'Bryan who poisoned halloween candy in 1974 which led to the death of his son. I will be doing a powerpoint on the case. I chose this case because of how scary, yet simple it is to just put poison in halloween candy.

Anonymous said...

The case I am doing is when someone put arsenic in the coffee at a Maine church. The format I am doing is the poster thing. I choose this case cause it was in maine

cassajand2010 said...

The case i will be presenting to you is the Eva Rablen case. This involves the wife supposedly poisoning her husband with a cup of coffee, after dancing the night away! The way i will be presenting this information to you is through a power point presentation. The reason i chose this case is because i didn't really have that much time to do research :)...haha but no also because im wondering why this lady decides to poison her deaf war veteran husband.

rachel said...

I'm doing my case on the poisoning of Alexander Litvenenko. He was a Russian spy who was seen as betraying the agency he belonged to, the KGB. He ended up being poisoned with Polonium-210. For my project I'm going to be making a 3-fold tripod. I chose this case because it seemed really interesting

SamAlbert said...

I chose to do the Chicago Tylenol murder cases. In my case, Tylenol capsules from a local drug store had been tampered with and replaced with pills that contained potassium cyanide. It ended up killing around five people. I will be making a movie about this. I chose this case because it caused the FBI to insist on having stricter anti-tampering packaging laws.

morgan pelletier said...

I chose a case about a man who poisoned his wife by giving her gatorade with antifreeze in it. he killed her for an insurance policy. I chose this case because i thought it was interesting. I will present this case using a powerpoint.

morgan pelletier said...

I chose a case about a man who poisoned his wife by giving her gatorade with antifreeze in it. he killed her for an insurance policy. I chose this case because i thought it was interesting. I will present this case using a powerpoint.

chelsea said...

Im doing my project on A Dr.Shipman that kill over 200 of his patients by injecting heroin

ReneeDeschene said...

I am working on a case that involves a man murdering his wife. He gave her sleeping pills to make her drowsy then fed her juice spiked with antifreeze to kill her. The poison didn't work and she was sick for a few days so he suffocated her with a pillow.
The man was found guilty of first degree murder and faces a mandatory life in prison sentence with chance of parole.

Keyna said...

I will be covering the case of Thomas Hall and the murder of his Father-in-law and the attempted murder of his wife. It was a long term poisoning in which the accused administered antimony and colchicum into the food and drink of the victims. Thomas Hall is referred to as one of the greatest criminals in the 19th century due to his long term commitment and extensive plans to collect life insurance from two policies taken out on his wife.

Paige Theriault said...

I chose the James Keown casw, he posioned his wife with antifreeze in her gatorade because he had debt he needed to get rid of, which her 250,000 insurance policy would take care of. I chose if because it made me me think of what people would do just to get money.

Anonymous said...

The case that I'm choosing to do is the Lydia Trueblood case. She poisoned 5 of her husbands, her brother-in-law, and her baby daughter with arsenic. She killed them all because she wanted to collect life insurance from the victims. I will be presenting my case with an informational binder.

Anonymous said...

I chose the O'Bryan Case, or the case of the "Candyman Killer."Bascially this is a man who was very sick, and murdered his own son through poisonous candy. This case really stuck out to me because it involves children, and I have no idea how somebody could be sick enough to murder their own child for money.

Anonymous said...

The case I'm doing is the Poison Pellet Murder also known as the Umbrella case. I chose this case because it's a very unique way to kill some one and clever.

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Mikayla Michaud said...

Jim Jones recruited a bunch of city people to his makeshift town, made them believe he was not insane, and then made them kill themselves using poisoned Kool-Aid.

Ted "Never Back Down" Martin said...

The Alexander the Great case. He was poisoned after drinking with his friends.

Anonymous said...

Napoleon Bonaparte. He died... they did an examination of his hair and found arsenic in the hair. They think he was poisoned. I chose this because it is a pretty easy case.

Anonymous said...

I chose the Anna Nicole Smith case. Five months after her sons death she was found also dead, cause being poisoned. People question whether it was Anna's boyfriend at the time, or ex-husand.

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mberube said...

The case I chose was Lydia Trueblood, she ended up killing 5 husbands, her brother in law, and her baby girl by poisoning them with arsenic.

Anonymous said...

This is Corben, I pick Jim Jones.

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TaylorPell said...

I'm doing the James Keown murder. James murdered his wife, Julie by poisoning her gatorade with anti freeze. I will present this as a brochure or some kind of book, or a diorama (possibly). I chose this case because it seemed interesting.

Anonymous said...

I have chosen the the famous case of Grigori Rasputin and will present this through a powerpoint presentation. I chose this case because of how the murder and poisoning happened, Rasputin was said so be a magical healer and eventually a group of nobles decided he must be murdered and poisoned, beat, shot, and threw him into a freezing river where he eventually died. It is a very interesting case that I look forward to researching.

Carapellucci said...

The case I chose was Maria felix

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Anonymous said...

Ronald O'Bryan murdered his son, by lacing his candy with cyanide. I chose this case, because it seems interesting.

Anonymous said...

The case that I am working on is the Alexander Litvnenko who died in London on November 23, 2006. Litvnenko was a former spy for KGB and FSB was poisoned from polonium 210. From a statement on his death bed, he accused the Russian President Vladimir Putin of poisening him, which Putin denied.

Unknown said...

I'm doing the Marie Lafarge case. She was trialed for killing her husband with arsenic.

Anonymous said...

I pick Bruce Lee, bruce lee was having head ache, he when to go lie down and he woke up dead. His brain was swollen. believed to be poisoned by the triads. I picked bruce lee's case because bruce lee is the most famous fighter in the world...

Anonymous said...

I'm doing mine on Graham Young, a 14 year old boy who used his family as guinea pigs and tested different poisons on them. I'm thinking about doing a children's book.

Anonymous said...

I'm going to do the case of Tylenol poisoning case from 1982. In this case seven people died after taking Tylenol.This case took place in the Chicago area. I choose this case because I find it interesting.

Alex said...

A case of dog poisoning were a person killed four of her neighbors dogs. I did case because i like puppies and think that animal cruelty is disgusting.

dancefever2012 said...

I picked a Tennessee mom who killed her baby girl with methadone

Anonymous said...

I chose the jonestown case where a thousand people in a cult all dropped dead. i chose it because it seemed very interesting and im most likely going to do a power point presentation

Anonymous said...

Harold Shipman case.There were at least 215 deaths and he was sentenced to life in prison. I chose this case because of how many deaths there were and how mentally deranged a man must become to decide to kill such a large amount of people and get away with it. I will be making a keynote presentation,

Anonymous said...

Im gunna do the o'Bryan Case where Ronald O'Bryan killed his some by putting poison in the candy he gave him.

Anonymous said...

I am working on the Tylenol Terrorist case. The case is still unsolved.

Anonymous said...

the jonestown suicide because i want to know more about the cult

Jessica said...

I chose the umbrella poisoner because it interests me how someone can turn an umbrella into a poisonous weapon.

Devin Lagasse said...

i chose the harold shipman case to see how he killed all those people and got away with it for a long time

Anonymous said...

The case i will be researching is the Lydia Trueblood case. She had been married 5 different times to 5 different men that she had killed, she also killed a brother in law and her daughter all with the same poison. Her motive to killing was to collect the life insurance of all of her victims. I will be creating a brochure.

Christina Caron said...

The case i'm doing is the Wis. man convicted in antifreeze poison case. The man was found guilty of poisoning and suffocating his wife.

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Robynn said...

Me and Paige M are doing the Lydia trueblood case.

Anonymous said...

We are doing the obryan case

Anonymous said...

ME and Lindsay are doing the poisoning in New Sweden.

Unknown said...

Robyn and I will be creating our presentation based on the Lydia Trueblood case where she successfully used Arensic to poison five of her past husbands, a brother in law, and her daughter in order to collect life insurance from all of her victims. She was eventually caught and convicted.

Anonymous said...

Me and Lindsay are doing the posioning in New Sweden

Anonymous said...

Me and Lindsay are doing the poisoning in New Sweden.

Anonymous said...

Katina and I are doing the Harold Shipman case.

Anonymous said...

I am doing the tylenol terrorist

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Anonymous said...

i am doing Hafizullah Amin

Anonymous said...

i am doing Hafizullah Amin

Anonymous said...

Carissa and I are doing the Jonestown Massacre where a cult in South America was poisoned and killed. Jim Jones was the leader of the cult and 918 people died.

Anonymous said...

Randy and I are doing the Ronald O'Bryan case.

Anonymous said...

Stepan Bandera

Unknown said...

Rajneeshee bioterror attack

Anonymous said...

I am doing the Donald Harvey case. It is a case on a famous man, Harvey, who killed over 70 people, most of which were poisoned. He worked at multiple hospitals and would kill the patients. He also tried to kill neighbors and friends as well as the patients. I chose this case because it was shocking that one man could be so evil an disturbed and only get caught after a huge amount of murders. I presented the case with a movie trailer and brief summary afterwards.

Anonymous said...

I chose the Vera Renzci case which I did a PowerPoint on. Vera was charged with the murders of 35 men, one of them was her only son. She poisoned her first two husbands with arsenic because she believed they were cheating on her. She then continued to murder 32 of her lovers the same way.

Anonymous said...

I made a newspaper on Mary Ann Cotton, Britain's first serial killer. She was charged with 3 murders, but suspected of 21, including eight of her own children, seven stepchildren, her mother, three husbands, a lover – and an inconvenient friend. She poisoned them all with Arsenic.

Anonymous said...

I had the Arensic case in New Sweden, Maine. April 27, 2003 the coffee in the church was contaminated. No one was ever convicted of the crime however Daniel Bondeson committed suicide 5 days after and in his note he admitted to the poisoning. Police believe he did not act alone and the case is still on going,

Anonymous said...

I am doing the Alexander Litvinenko case. alexander was an ex-Russian spy who left Russia to live in England. While in England he joined with MI6 to work in counter terrorism. Two Russian said that they would like to meet with him and some of his colleagues. When they meet for tea, one of the Russian put poison into Alexanders tea causing him to die slowly in the hospital.

Anonymous said...

I chose the Zimbabwe elephant massacre. Some poachers used cyanid to poison the water holes that the elephants drink out of. Because of this over 300 elephants died as also the animals that ate the elephants died because of the poison in their flesh.