• Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, was murdered with strychnine in 1905. (lrb.co.uk)
  • In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu coroner's jury, of strychnine poisoning. (changinghands.com)
  • As co-founder and primary benefactor of Stanford University, Jane died of strychnine poisoning in 1905 in Waikiki. (juliaflynnsiler.com)
  • A Thoroughly Wicked Woman is based on a murder that occurred in Vancouver in November 1905. (bcstudies.com)
  • A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. (changinghands.com)
  • And the fact that Stanford University rose from this swamp of murder and conspiracy to become today's renowned institution? (changinghands.com)
  • Listen in as Jonathan Menges, a roundtable of co-hosts and special guests discuss topics related to the Whitechapel Murders, Jack the Ripper, Victorian British history, and whatever else suits their fancy. (casebook.org)
  • Michael MacKay, 41, pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder. (gx94radio.com)
  • A Saskatchewan man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the poisoning of his wife on their family farm. (castanet.net)
  • Michael MacKay, left, was escorted out of Battleford Courthouse by a RCMP officer after being convicted of second-degree murder of his wife Cindy MacKay in Battleford, Sask. (sasktoday.ca)
  • Michael pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Monday at the Court of King's Bench in Battleford, Sask. (canadiannewstoday.com)
  • MacKay's husband Michael pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, admitting to poisoning her at their farmhouse. (canadiannewstoday.com)
  • He pleaded to the lesser offence of second-degree murder. (canadiannewstoday.com)
  • He added "an unmeasured but lethal amount of strychnine. (canadiannewstoday.com)
  • Throughout the annals of history, a myriad of toxic substances have been employed with nefarious intent, serving as lethal agents in the commission of heinous acts such as murder. (thechemistrynotes.com)
  • Among these insidious compounds are the notorious arsenic, the deadly nightshade, the lethal hemlock, the potent strychnine, and the treacherous curare. (thechemistrynotes.com)
  • Murder in Britain in the nineteenth century was rare. (politics-prose.com)
  • A compendium of information, resources and discussion on notable nineteenth century American murders. (murderbygaslight.com)
  • Then try this one…In more than 400 blood-soaked pages Judith Flanders lovingly traces the progression of notorious Victorian murders and the public's taste for them…with her expert knowledge and guidance we can shudder at the violence or the cold-calculation of murderers…excellent, well-written and hugely well-informed. (politics-prose.com)
  • She uses the setting of an opium den to create mystery and confusion, just as Dickens did in his last, unfinished story, The Mystery of Edwin Drood , the work that brings him closest to Christie's world of detectives and murder mysteries, as well as following a long-line of Victorian works which document the high quantity of drug abuse in the Victorian Era. (agathachristie.com)
  • In this companion volume to his bestselling Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London, Jonathan Oates has selected over 20 haunting, sometimes shocking cases from the period between the two world wars. (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
  • For an example of history being written by the victors, consider the case of Jane Lathrop Stanford, the victim of one of California's most puzzling unsolved murder mysteries. (juliaflynnsiler.com)
  • Strychnine is easily quantitated in body fluids and tissues using instrumental methods in order to confirm a diagnosis of poisoning in hospitalized victims or to assist in the forensic investigation of a case of fatal overdosage. (wikipedia.org)
  • In fact a shotgun was Cullen Baker's preferred weapon, and many of his killings were outright murders of unarmed or unsuspecting victims. (historynet.com)
  • Ultimately, Palmer was found guilty and executed for the murder of John Parsons Cook via strychnine poisoning, but it was thought that there were many, many more victims. (listverse.com)
  • Her treatise, "Hiding in Plain Sight: The Psyche of Serial Killers" appears in Crime magazine, and her article "Strychnine and Stilettos: The Anatomy of Female Serial Killers and Their Victims" is published in Crime Spree magazine. (nyjournalofbooks.com)
  • He developed the Marsh test, which was later used successfully in a murder prosecution, to identify the presence of arsenic. (thechemistrynotes.com)
  • Included are the shooting of PC James Kelly in Gunnersbury, violent deaths associated with Fenian Conspiracies, the stabbing of the French acrobat Martial Lechevalier in Piccadilly, the strychnine poisoning of egg-seller Kusel Behr, the killing by arsenic of three members of a Croydon family, and, perhaps most gruesome of all, the case of the unidentified body parts found at Waterloo Station. (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
  • Where the name of the wife of the defendant in a murder trial is endorsed on the indictment as a witness and the verdict of the coroner's jury recommending that both the defendant and his wife be held to the grand jury is read to the jury by the State's attorney, it is reversible error to permit comments by the State's. (case.law)
  • He knew the defendant, the murdered physician, and at least 5 of the jurors. (sangamonpassports.org)
  • Michael MacKay drove two of his daughters to school then returned home to the family farm in Saskatchewan, where he mixed a deadly drink of Gatorade and strychnine for his wife. (gx94radio.com)
  • Treatment of strychnine poisoning involves an oral application of an activated charcoal infusion which serves to absorb any poison within the digestive tract that has not yet been absorbed into the blood. (wikipedia.org)
  • The key to understanding Christie's fascination with murder by poison is the time she spent working as a nurse, and later as a pharmacy dispenser, during the First World War. (agathachristie.com)
  • The story demonstrates Christie's knowledge of chemistry by having the strychnine poison, normally a harmless component of Emily Inglethorp's medication, made deadly by the addition of bromide that causes it to precipitate out of the liquid and accumulate at the bottom of the bottle. (agathachristie.com)
  • It could be bought as rat poison or in fly paper, just like the strychnine her murderers were also able to buy at their local shops. (agathachristie.com)
  • Whichever drug or poison Christie uses in her murder plots, she is careful to plan its administration and describe its effects in an accurate manner. (agathachristie.com)
  • Other ingenious methods of murder include dipping a dart in the poison of the boomslang snake (to kill Madame Giselle in Death in the Clouds ), adding prussic acid to a nasal spray used for allergies (to kill Ella Zielinsky in The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ), and giving several people huge overdoses of nicotine in Three Act Tragedy . (agathachristie.com)
  • The treatment for strychnine poisoning in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was to administer tannic acid which precipitates the strychnine as an insoluble tannate salt, and then to anaesthetise the patient with chloroform until the effects of the strychnine had worn off. (wikipedia.org)
  • 10. Madame Popova was an 19th century woman who operated a murder-for-hire service in Russia that specialized in liberating married women from their cruel husbands for a fee. (factrepublic.com)
  • The 19th century saw the development of medicines that were effective in small doses, such as opiates and strychnine. (mordomas.com)
  • For this reason, strychnine poisoning is often portrayed in literature and film, such as the murder mysteries written by Agatha Christie. (wikipedia.org)
  • I'm talking, of course, of the police that will investigate your murder-the most classic of unsolved mysteries, a man found dead in a room that is completely sealed off from the outside world. (thecommononline.org)
  • The jury attending her inquest on November 1, 1883, found her death to have been a "willful murder. (canadashistory.ca)
  • A postmortem returned a verdict of willful death, and as Parsons had been seen purchasing strychnine just before, he was arrested, tried, and hanged. (listverse.com)
  • Jane Anderson and Theodore Anderson were charged with the murder of George Anderson, husband to Jane and uncle to Theodore. (sangamonpassports.org)
  • That alleged killer, Anthony Amaro, is appealing his case claiming that he is an innocent victim and did not have anything to do with the six previous similar murders that were committed years ago. (nyjournalofbooks.com)
  • She is the fourth murder victim in a short time and with the same characteristics: a young mother, stabbed from behind. (blogspot.com)
  • When he returned, he mixed his wife the drink with powdered Gatorade and strychnine. (gx94radio.com)
  • The witnesses called to observe the execution of Cook Teets, a blind man found guilty of killing his wife with strychnine, stamped their feet as they stood at the gate to the Grey County Jail in Owen Sound, Ontario, at dawn on December 5, 1884. (canadashistory.ca)
  • 5. George Remus was an infamous prohibition era bootlegger, who after being released from jail for bootlegging, murdered his estranged wife, Augusta Imogene Brown Holmes in broad daylight. (factrepublic.com)
  • Murder by Gaslight: Reverend Green, Wife-Poisoner. (murderbygaslight.com)
  • In 1901, Toppan moved in with an elderly man named Alden Davis and his family in Cataumet in order to care for him after the death of his wife Mattie, whom she had murdered. (prolificcasefiles.com)
  • Strychnine is a toxic pesticide that has been used to kill gophers and coyotes on farms. (gx94radio.com)
  • He admitted having strychnine in his possession - but the pesticide was in common use on this western Ontario farming frontier, mainly to control predators and rodents. (canadashistory.ca)
  • John embezzled extensively from his company, got caught, and murdered his family and then himself. (factrepublic.com)
  • 14. A 12-year-old boy named Alam Khan saw his own father being murdered by a family friend. (factrepublic.com)
  • Then I held an after-launch party for friends and family who helped put Maverick, Movies & Murder on the map by reading, commenting, and hosting an event. (maryseifertauthor.com)
  • So, when an autopsy reveals that Madam was poisoned with strychnine, he is summarily arrested and charged with murder. (kamwilliams.com)
  • Compelling…remarkable…in this intelligent and comprehensive compendium of murder, she has left no gravestone unturned. (politics-prose.com)
  • Her husband Michael was charged with first-degree murder more than a year after her death, although he repeatedly told police he was not to blame. (canadiannewstoday.com)
  • 7. An Irish woman named Bridget Cleary was murdered by her husband in 1895. (factrepublic.com)
  • On the 1st of March in 2000, Katherine Knight murdered her husband John Charles Thomas Price, then disemboweled and carved up his body. (factrepublic.com)
  • Her husband murdered her in the house many years ago, and people driving past have reported smelling burning flesh and hearing the screams of a woman. (hauntedplaces.org)
  • Baker resumed his deadly depredations in northeast Texas, southwest Arkansas and northwest Lou isiana, leading his gang in raids that inevitably ended in robbery and murder. (historynet.com)
  • In a murder trial it is error to permit the State's attorney to make statements and introduce proof to the effect that the deceased was one of five children and that the father was dead and the mother left with the other four children without means of support, as such matters have no bearing on the guilt of the accused and tend only to prejudice the jury against him. (case.law)
  • For nearly a century, the fact of her murder was successfully covered up. (juliaflynnsiler.com)
  • Judith Flanders's wonderful, sometimes appalling The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Reveled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, is a guidebook to notably grisly true-life tales… [Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but can be sharp and very funny about the vagaries of melodramatic and sensational plotting. (politics-prose.com)
  • Establishing George's ailment helped account for the strychnine found in his system on the night of his untimely death. (sangamonpassports.org)
  • Why continue with a warning that from the very start wants you dead, nay, that does more than want-that will kill you just as you have murdered innumerable books, all those authors eviscerated with your infamous sarcasm and mordant, mortifying wit, your bite of death that is to be answered by mine? (thecommononline.org)
  • Although Stanford officials claimed that no one could have wanted to murder Jane, we meet several people who had the motives and the opportunity to do so. (changinghands.com)
  • Some people think he was murdered! (brasswatchgames.com)
  • 3. There have been documented cases of people committing murders while sleepwalking. (factrepublic.com)
  • 12. In 1982, 7 people were murdered via cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules. (factrepublic.com)
  • With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the dangerous to know, The Invention of Murder is both a gripping tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable. (politics-prose.com)
  • In this fascinating 'whydunit,' he makes a convincing case for why Jane Stanford's murder was covered up for so long. (changinghands.com)
  • For all the pluses of this book in terms of the delineation of the complexities of an investigation from start to finish and the twists and turns of a murder case, there is one major drawback that prevents it from being a teeth clenching read: There is a lack of tension and excitement that one would expect in a thriller. (nyjournalofbooks.com)
  • The Jackson murder provides an interesting case study of how this transformation was playing itself out in Vancouver. (bcstudies.com)
  • In one case a man named Kenneth Parker managed to drive 20 kilometers to his in-law's house and murdered his mother-in-law all while sleepwalking. (factrepublic.com)
  • Keller bases her narrative on the newspaper accounts of the murder and the courtroom dramatics which followed. (bcstudies.com)
  • More recently she contributed the psychological profile to The Casey Anthony Murder Trial by Claudette Walker. (nyjournalofbooks.com)
  • Eventually Theresa and Esther went to trial, not for murder but for perjury. (bcstudies.com)
  • The trial of Henry B. Truett for murder took 3 days. (sangamonpassports.org)
  • At the trial the evidence against William Green aka George Long was overwhelming and he was convicted of first-degree murder. (murderbygaslight.com)
  • There was no direct evidence, like eyewitness testimony, but the Crown developed its theory based on a series of circumstances that were suspicious, ultimately charging Michael with first-degree murder. (canadiannewstoday.com)
  • But this murder mystery will require heightened instincts and focus to solve. (nyjournalofbooks.com)
  • Agatha Christie's stories began in many ways, but the many nasty and subtle methods of murder she wrote down in her notebooks and later came back to in her stories suggest that it was often the idea for a murder that inspired the start of a new mystery. (agathachristie.com)
  • The shock of the crime itself and the mystery surrounding it, the fear generated by the awareness a killer on the loose, the insight the cases give into outdated police methods, and the chance to speculate about the identity of the killer after so many years have passed - all these aspects of unsolved murder cases make them compelling reading. (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
  • Cocaine instead features as a method of murder in one of the short stories included in Poirot's Early Cases . (agathachristie.com)
  • Consider one of the better known cases of a murder committed for insurance. (1life.co.za)
  • One of the very few native German language books written about the Whitechapel Murders by German Ripperologists. (casebook.org)
  • After two years James Campbell was finally acquitted on murder charges. (solanoarticles.com)
  • Brilliantly researched and rendered, this is an indispensible read for anyone--scholars and the general public alike--who harbors an interest in the evolution of the notion and representation of murder. (politics-prose.com)
  • Strychnine makes a person's muscles contract intensely and painfully. (gx94radio.com)
  • A spate of murders take place in London - including two employees of the Post Office. (blogspot.com)
  • In 1864, the Third Colorado Cavalry under Colonel John Chivington murdered hundreds of Native American women and children in what would become known as the Sand Creek Massacre. (factrepublic.com)
  • Deftly sifting the scattered evidence and conflicting stories of suspects and witnesses, Richard White gives us the first full account of Jane Stanford's murder and its cover-up. (changinghands.com)
  • It's astonishing that Jane Stanford's murder went unacknowledged for so long. (changinghands.com)
  • It was confirmed that the brothers were in Pleasants Valley the day before the murder, but neither the Hewitts nor the Hunts could positively identify the men as the murders. (solanoarticles.com)
  • Beausoleil, 67, serving a life term for his role in the 1969 murder of musician Gary Hinman, has been denied parole 17 times, was given a 5 year denial at his last hearing, held in 2010. (cielodrive.com)
  • A seemingly ordinary murder puzzles Backstrom, who is struggling with strict orders from his doctor to lead a healthier life. (blogspot.com)
  • He then poisoned her, with strychnine, and tried to claim her life cover. (1life.co.za)
  • His daughter thinks he was murdered but I think the old bastard's heart gave out. (brasswatchgames.com)
  • As the murder spree continues in Stockholm , the police too begin to think that they have a serial killer on their hands. (blogspot.com)
  • His gut feeling proves him right: within days, his team has another murder linked to the first on their hands, and reports of alleged ties to a Securicor heist gone out of control, killing two. (blogspot.com)