Pick Your Poison & Heart Attack Homicides In Disguise

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Pick Your Poison
DR. DOUG HANSON
Forensics Contributor
"Pick your poison" may be the old saying, but most poisoning victims don't get to pick their poison--someone else does it for them. Arsenic, cyanide, and strychnine are the things we think of immediately as poisons. Most pesticides are poisonous to humans, as are the materials sold as rat or rodent poisons. Probably the most famous character in history to die from poison was Socrates, who drank tea made from the hemlock plant. This plant, which resembles parsley, contains a variety of highly toxic chemicals. The most potent of these is coniine, a neurotoxin that destroys the functioning of the central nervous system.
The list of potentially poisonous substance is very large. Many poisons act slowly or require a large dose to be lethal. Poisoning cases can be accidental or suicides, while other poisoning cases are clearly homicides. Many poisons are neurotoxins, affecting the nervous system in a variety of ways but generally leading to impairment of lung function and suffocation of the victim. Homicide poisoning is often intended to mimic some medical situation, a heart attack or diabetic coma. This makes determining the cause of death difficult. However, the forensic toxicologist, like any other forensic investigator, has a broad base of knowledge and a wide array of chemical analytical methods available to dissect even the most complex poison cases.
Murder Most Foul
That's how the news media portrayed the murder of Nevada Sate Controller Kathy Augustine by her third husband, Chaz Higgs. Police believed that Higgs gave her a lethal dose of the muscle relaxant succinylcholine. Higgs was the nurse who had cared for Charles Augustine, her second husband, after his stroke. Shortly after Charles's death, Higgs married Kathy Augustine. At the time she died, she was running for State Treasurer. However, Augustine had been impeached by the Nevada Assembly for misuse of state funds. Higgs, who apparently married her because he thought she would have money and power, decided to murder her.
Being a nurse, Higgs had access to a wide array of drugs. The choice of succinylcholine was a good one because it is not normally tested for in toxicology screens. Succinylcholine is a strong muscle relaxant that paralyzes the respiratory muscles. It is normally used in a hospital to allow the insertion of a breathing tube into the throat of a patient who is still conscious. In higher doses it can paralyze the entire breathing apparatus, and the victim slowly suffocates to death. The autopsy showed that Augustine had died of a heart attack. A small needle mark on her buttocks was overlooked in the initial autopsy. However, investigators were not so sure, and when police searched Higgs' house they found succinylcholine and other drugs in his possession. Higgs was arrested and eventually convicted of her murder.
From Russia with Love
In November 2006, ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was fatally poisoned with Polonium-210, a highly radioactive material. He survived for several days and suffered greatly during the time. Areas of the hotel where litvinenko stayed and a sushi restaurant that he frequently visited also showed high levels of radioactivity. He would have to ingest a relatively large amount of Polonium-210 to cause fatal poisoning. The material could have been placed in his food on several occasions. However, Scotland Yard officials are not sure how the radioactive material actually entered his body. It is the first time that a radioactive agent has been used as a poison in the UK.
Aconite
In 1986, an autopsy performed in Japan by Dr. Ono Yokichi led to no clear cause of death, until a toxicology search revealed small amounts of an alkaloid toxin, aconite. Aconite is a plant indigenous to many parts of the world. All parts of this plant are poisonous, but the root is the most highly toxic. A half tablespoon of a tincture of aconite root placed in a bottle of whisky is enough to kill a very large man. A tincture is an alcohol extract of the material. Placed in a drink, the alcohol goes unnoticed. Aconite has been called "the perfect poison to mask a murder." It can be detected only by sophisticated toxicology analysis using equipment that is not always available to local forensic labs. In some poorer cultures is called the "Queen of Poisons."
Deadly Smoothies
Maryann Neabor of Shamog, NJ, says "she just wanted to make her brother-in-law sick" when she fed him pineapple smoothies laced with antifreeze back in 2004. The jury saw it as aggravated manslaughter. Antifreeze is primarily ethylene glycol, a chemical with a resemblance to sugar which is why it is sweet to the taste. This sweetness allows it to be put into fruit drinks and other foods and go undetected by the person consuming them.
In 1993, Julia Lynn Turner's husband Maurice, a Georgia police officer, died of sudden and undetermined ailment that was decided to be a heart attack. Soon after she moved in with Randy Thompson, a sheriff's deputy and firefighter, and things were fine--for a while. They had two children and then the relationship went on the rocks. In 2001, Randy Thompson took ill and died, also from a suspicious ailment. Both men had large life insurance policies which were to be paid out to Julia Lynn. Both had died of kidney and heart failure, so investigators were suspicious. Forensic investigation suggested the men had been poisoned, but with what? Often a poison is no longer present in the victim's body, because the body metabolizes it. The forensic toxicologist must search for metabolic products of the poison, and in some cases there may be more than one.
When the husband died in 1993, the medical examiner had wondered at the time about the presence of high amounts of calcium oxalate crystals in various tissues from the body. In 2001, the forensic toxicologist found similar results and realized that calcium oxalate forms in the kidneys from oxalic acid. Oxalic acid is a major metabolic product of the metabolism of antifreeze.
But how could this woman get two full grown men, both law enforcement officers, to consume antifreeze? Julia Lynn was a creative poisoner--she laced lemon-lime Gatorade with the antifreeze. The sweet taste and green color were a perfect match. However, Julia Lynn became even more creative, including the antifreeze in lime Jell-O, and even in chicken soup. In May 2004, a jury found Julia Lynn guilty of malice murder in the death of both men.



Heart attack homicides in disguise
Deborah Dupre

Human Rights Examiner

Fatal heart attacks can be induced from a distance or in close range using new weaponry designed to disguise homicide.
In the Bustan Rotana hotel on the night of January 19, 50-year-old Hamas commander, Mahmoud Mabhouh's assassination, blamed on Israel's Mossad, was made to look like a run-of-the-mill heart attack.
Borzou Daragahi, reporting from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, writes that "assailants apparently entered the hotel room without any struggle, suggesting that someone on the team knew Mabhouh."
Such assaults, and even lesser attacks that ruin a target's life, often involve someone getting to know the target by infiltrating his or her family and/or closest social network, or that someone close to the target is recruited through threat or bribery.
"A fatal dose of the powerful muscle relaxant succinylcholine quickly paralyzes its recipient and ultimately mimics effects of a heart attack within 15 minutes," writes Daragahi.
"Just as police were about to conclude that it was a natural death, a Palestinian man trying to contact Mabhouh learned of his death and telephoned his family in Gaza. It was only then that Hamas officials contacted Dubai police.
Heart Attack Gun
Among the secret arsenal of high-tech weapons is the heart attack gun that shoots a small poison dart to cause a heart attack.
"The lethal poison then rapidly enters the bloodstream causing a heart attack. Once the damage is done, the poison denatures quickly, so that an autopsy is very unlikely to detect that the heart attack resulted from anything other than natural causes," reported Fred Burks for the Examiner. (Fred Burks, CIA secret weapon of Assassination, November 29, 2009)
The dart from this secret CIA weapon penetrates clothing, even leather, leaving a red dot on the skin. If the target's clothing is less penetrable, such as leather, the target's life might be saved. The target would then notice extreme itching, a raised red area where hit, and later, deep, reddish purple streaks (toxins) from the hit area.
It is opined that a new hand-held, body contact version of the heart attack gun exists. The small weapon is easily concealed, for example, in a carried bag or purse. The target can be 'bumped into' by the assailant that has one hand in the bag or purse positioned to hit the target, even on a crowded street. It would not be suspected that the target's suddent heart attack had been caused by a hit with a concealed heart attack gun.
Burks writes what the more common results of the remotely operated heart attack hit are: "On penetration of the deadly dart, the individual targeted for assassination may feel as if bitten by a mosquito, or they may not feel anything at all. The poisonous dart completely disintegrates upon entering the target.
"The lethal poison then rapidly enters the bloodstream causing a heart attack. Once the damage is done, the poison denatures quickly, so that an autopsy is very unlikely to detect that the heart attack resulted from anything other than natural causes."
This has been verified in Congressional testimony.
Burks writes, "The astonishing information about this secret weapon of the CIA comes from U.S. Senate testimony in 1975 on rogue activities of the CIA. This weapon is only one of many James Bond-like discoveries of the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee"]Church Committee hearings[/ame], officially known as the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities."

No person was ever held accountable for the shocking covert assaults on Americans after they were revealed in the Church Committee hearings. Secret weaponry is far more sophisticated now than in 1975.

Whistelblower secret assassinations

"Could this [heart attack gun] or a similar secret weapon have been used, for instance, in the recent death of 52-year-old Mark Pittman, a reporter who predicted the financial crisis and exposed Federal Reserve misdoings?" Burks posits, adding, "Pittman, whose fight to open the Federal Reserve to more scrutiny led Bloomberg News to sue the central bank and win, died of a heart attack on Nov. 25th."

How many other deaths attributed to heart attack have been homicide? How many witnesses died of heart attacks in cases involving the U.S. government? How many other secret weapons are there? How many people are being used as experimentees for new weapons being developed with the defense budget?

All weapons must first be tested on humans. Society's most vulnerable, such as those confined in overseas and United States prisons plus dissenters, have historically been used in non-consensual human experimentation. This is detailed in the writer's book, Operation H1N1, Vaccine Liberty or Death.
This covert way to assassinate targets, with one of many pre-tested weapons, the heart attack gun, is explained in the Congressional testimony available for viewing in the short video below.
Burks suggests watching the 45-minute documentary from which the above clip was taken. (To view this, click here.)
He writes, "In this riveting exposé, five former CIA agents describe how their initial pride and enthusiasm at serving their nation turned to anguish and remorse, as they realized that they were actually subverting democracy and killing innocent civilians all in the name "national security" and promoting foreign policy agendas."
This is an era of increasing personal insecurity due to so-called national security. Amid systemic deceipt and lies by the evil empire, it is the innocent targeted individuals in the U.S. and elsewhere, the peace-loving beings, those seeking and exposing truth, who are reporting that they are being spied on ("multi-stalked") and assaulted with new, military grade, high-tech weaponry.
To covertly assault a target, spying is required. Spying is no isolated act. Spying through local 'foot soldiers' who stalk and through technology such as phone and internet is always part of the eventual organized, covert, physical or psychological assault.
Paramount to genuine national security and safety of innocent people covertly perecuted, threatened and fast- or slow-killed, is that their family, friends and human rights organizations acknowledge them, recognize their hell due to illegal spying and associated assaults, and advocate for them.
Under guise of "national security," the domestic hit-list grows longer daily. Anyone's name can be added to it.
Deborah Dupré holds a B.S., M.S. and post-graduate diploma from U.S. and Australian universities, She has been a human and civil rights advocate for over 25 years in the U.S., Vanuatu and Australia. Feel free to support her work and book in progress about targeted individuals at www.DeborahDupre.com , by subscribing to Dupré's reports, and by posting the link to this site (rather than entire article) unless republishing permission is granted. (Email info@DeborahDupre.com.) Dupré's most recent book, Operation H1N1: Vaccine Liberty or Death, is available at DeborahDupre.com.