
Oklahoma woman Danielle Dana Layman charged in poisoning plot to kill husband
An Oklahoma woman had a novel solution to a child custody issue with her ex-husband who lived in Israel: Hire someone to travel there and kill him using the deadly toxin ricin she manufactured in her kitchen. But More...

New Jersey chemist, Tianle Li, sentenced to life for fatally poisoning her husband
Photo/Minnesota Historical Society via wikimedia commons Tianle Li, a chemist residing in New Jersey was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison on Monday, Sept. 30. She was accused of fatally poisoning her More...

Pittsburgh neurologist Robert Ferrante pleads ‘not guilty’ to poisoning wife with cyanide
A University of Pittsburgh neuroscientist has pleaded not guilty to criminal homicide in the death of his wife, a doctor, who collapsed in their home and died three days later of acute cyanide poisoning. Dr. Robert More...

Clostridium perfringens linked to a Christmas Day food poisoning outbreak that sickened 30 diners at a Havering establishment: one person died
The approximately 30 people who were sickened after eating a Christmas Day lunch at a dining establishment in the London Borough of Havering are believed to have contracted the relatively common cause of food More...