WA WA - Seattle, WhtFem 30-50, 159UFWA, alias 'Mary Anderson', copper IUD, breast surgery scars, Oct'96

[sasha17]

I went back and listened to the episode of this case on the Unresolved Podcast and one of the suggestions is she could’ve been a spy that lived in the United States or Canada her whole life but had relatives in other countries. I then found that Othram said her origins traced back to Eastern Iran or Afghanistan, and she may be of Persian descent. Is it possible this woman was a spy for Iran or Afghanistan? And decided to take her own life because she felt bad about what she was doing? I know it says they traced her origins to those countries which can be mean several things but i can’t help put wonder if this woman didn’t do some sort of work for one of those countries at one time or another.

It sounds like a fictional spy thriller but I suppose anything is possible. It could explain how she got cyanide. Suicide pill - Wikipedia

 

[Friday Fan]

It sounds like a fictional spy thriller but I suppose anything is possible. It could explain how she got cyanide. Suicide pill - Wikipedia

Cyanide used to be fairly easy to obtain.


This HS student bought it from a chemical supply in Kentucky.

Deadly But Legal: Poison On The Web

Police Say Teen Killed Romantic Rival With Cyanide Bought On Web

www.cbsnews.com

There was also a woman in Seattle (of all places), who poisoned her husband and some other people with Algae Destroyer. She laced their Excedrin capsules with it. One pill and they died right there on the spot. Boom.

"Forensic Files" Something's Fishy (TV Episode 1997) ⭐ 7.8 | Documentary, Crime

21m | TV-14

www.imdb.com

 

[lonewanderer]

Cyanide used to be fairly easy to obtain.


This HS student bought it from a chemical supply in Kentucky.

Deadly But Legal: Poison On The Web

Police Say Teen Killed Romantic Rival With Cyanide Bought On Web

www.cbsnews.com

There was also a woman in Seattle (of all places), who poisoned her husband and some other people with Algae Destroyer. She laced their Excedrin capsules with it. One pill and they died right there on the spot. Boom.

"Forensic Files" Something's Fishy (TV Episode 1997) ⭐ 7.8 | Documentary, Crime

21m | TV-14

www.imdb.com

The unidentified man that left the name William L. Toomie took cyanide in the 80s.

The Iceman also used cyanide quite a bit, and the Tylenol murders were cyanide, weren’t there?

 

[Friday Fan]

The unidentified man that left the name William L. Toomie took cyanide in the 80s.

The Iceman also used cyanide quite a bit, and the Tylenol murders were cyanide, weren’t there?

Yes, the Tylenol murders were cyanide.

Just pointing out that cyanide wasn't all that hard to obtain at the time. The algae destroyer contained cyanide. I don't know if it still does. I worked with potassium cyanide while I was in college (1975). I see that KCN is still available online to labs, industry and universities etc.

And here's a HS student who ingested it:

LAB ACCESS REVIEWED AFTER CYANIDE SCARE

Downers Grove South High School will review its laboratory safety procedures and rules for student access to chemicals after a student’s ingestion of a potentially lethal chemical at the scho…

www.chicagotribune.com

This here was recent:

UM lab stands by policies after potassium cyanide goes missing

It’s been almost two months since University of Montana police sounded the alert – someone took a vial of a lethal poison from a University of Montana research lab. University of Montana Facebook post on missing potassium cyanide Investig

nbcmontana.com

hhhmmm (did she work at a university or a lab somewhere?)

 

[Queena]

I went back and listened to the episode of this case on the Unresolved Podcast and one of the suggestions is she could’ve been a spy that lived in the United States or Canada her whole life but had relatives in other countries. I then found that Othram said her origins traced back to Eastern Iran or Afghanistan, and she may be of Persian descent. Is it possible this woman was a spy for Iran or Afghanistan? And decided to take her own life because she felt bad about what she was doing? I know it says they traced her origins to those countries which can be mean several things but i can’t help put wonder if this woman didn’t do some sort of work for one of those countries at one time or another.

That would certainly be a good possibility. I used to think that it was like the movies, a spy clean up crew comes and retrieves all they can to not blow the cover.

The unidentified man that left the name William L. Toomie took cyanide in the 80s.

The Iceman also used cyanide quite a bit, and the Tylenol murders were cyanide, weren’t there?

I was thinking about him. I wonder if there's any DNA left to test.


The Tylenol murders, a crime that's never been officially solved. There's a great documentary or podcast on the murders.

 

[Tired Professor]

The unidentified man that left the name William L. Toomie took cyanide in the 80s.

The Iceman also used cyanide quite a bit, and the Tylenol murders were cyanide, weren’t there?

There is also the case of “Paul Deering” (LAX John Doe) who died using Cyanide just 3 years before “Mary”.

CA - CA - Los Angeles, WhtMale 30-45, UP3713, cyanide suicide in hotel room, Oct'93

But if so, why are we not seeing a missing person’s report? This makes me think that maybe he’s foreign. I get that the report could have been lost, but being foreign might also explain why anyone close to him has yet to locate him. Yes being foreign is an option but let’s be honest, it’s far...

www.websleuths.com

I think someone on that thread mentioned that jewelers use cyanide, or maybe did back then?

 

[Susikatze]

Yes, the Tylenol murders were cyanide.

Just pointing out that cyanide wasn't all that hard to obtain at the time. The algae destroyer contained cyanide. I don't know if it still does. I worked with potassium cyanide while I was in college (1975). I see that KCN is still available online to labs, industry and universities etc.

And here's a HS student who ingested it:

LAB ACCESS REVIEWED AFTER CYANIDE SCARE

Downers Grove South High School will review its laboratory safety procedures and rules for student access to chemicals after a student’s ingestion of a potentially lethal chemical at the scho…

www.chicagotribune.com

This here was recent:

UM lab stands by policies after potassium cyanide goes missing

It’s been almost two months since University of Montana police sounded the alert – someone took a vial of a lethal poison from a University of Montana research lab. University of Montana Facebook post on missing potassium cyanide Investig

nbcmontana.com

hhhmmm (did she work at a university or a lab somewhere?)

She could have worked in the medical field or knew people who did. Many exile Iranians in the US used to work in the medical field. She could have been a doctor, chemist, nurse or she may have been married to one. Also I am sure that there are easy ways to obtain it somewhere if you really want.

 

[Friday Fan]

She could have worked in the medical field or knew people who did. Many exile Iranians in the US used to work in the medical field. She could have been a doctor, chemist, nurse or she may have been married to one. Also I am sure that there are easy ways to obtain it somewhere if you really want.

Many were engineering students where I went to school. However, I went to a small school, which didn't have a medical school. The was prerevolution.

I think cyanide is/was available wherever chemicals are used.

I had a part time job working in the chemistry lab at two year college. The cyanide would have been a reagent used in upcoming lab experiments to likely identify a particular compound. This would be for either freshmen chemistry, organic chem (2nd year class) or analytic chem (2nd year class). I can't remember what it was used for. The guy I worked with told me there was enough cyanide in the container to kill everyone within entire city.