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He Tested His Neighbors - How Thallium Turned Quiet Florida Deadly
He Tested His Neighbors - How Thallium Turned Quiet Florida Deadly
The quiet block of Alturas hid a chemical threat: a banned rat poison, colorless and tasteless, slipped into resealed Coca-Cola bottles that killed a mother and sickened her children. Who would methodically test a family with poisoned drinks and leave an anonymous Post-it telling them to leave?
In this episode, we tell how a blended household’s noise complaint escalated into a lethal poisoning, how investigators traced symptoms and a Post-it note back to a reserved next-door neighbor, and how thallium-one-nitrate became the…
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