The Mug on the Gravel: How a Coffee Cup Proved a Murder
The Mug on the Gravel: How a Coffee Cup Proved a Murder
A single ceramic mug, half-full of cold coffee, sat upright in the gravel eighteen feet from a utility pole and forty feet from a house where a sixty-two-year-old woman lay dead. That misplaced cup, photographed by a lineman and later examined by a forensic paralegal, became the pivot that transformed a presumed cardiac death into a homicide-how did a coffee mug connect to digoxin levels over three times the therapeutic ceiling?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from discovery to indictment: the initial scene, the…
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