Recent content by GloSeattle

Yes, it's surprising to read that since 1999 the increase in imported food for the US is up 300%! Back in the day when Mary committed suicide we only imported 7-8.8% of our food and water :-( I guess after the year 2000 eating and drinking imported food and water grew exponentially due to being...

I've been searching this area, Frewsburg NY, and the area code. Apparently there have been only a handful of industries in the area (not done entirely looking at those), and several prefix's, and an indication the area code is relatively new and most of this area before was loaded into Queen's...

Yes, it does depend on the type of test and the controls used during the testing. There is not a uniform procedure or what is called "best practices" for the isotope tests: isotope, strontium, and oxygen. So results can vary with improper (inexperienced) handling of the tests. Same in any crime...

Here are two articles written by journalist Carol Smith of the Seattle Post Intelligencer where the ME's at the time and Kathy Taylor were both interviewed as well as police, what was found in the room, what they did, etc.. The cipher in room 214 Who was Mary Anderson and why did she die? and...

Yes, it's used in archaeology as well! We didn't have such a global market in people born from 1952-1960's (the date range this DOE was estimated to be) so, a strontium isotope, stable, and oxygen isotope testing can reveal much and we need anything at this point - we have nothing on where to...

So in the unreliability issue... are you speaking of isotope analysis or strontium isotope testing? Isotope analysis is not as conclusive as strontium isotope testing is a bit more definitive than isotope analysis which is very broad. I am referring to cold case unidentified people this has been...

Interesting... I was going to attend UCLA Davis to study forensic anthropology in my criminal justice degree and it's my understanding this testing is still done and relied upon. I just read an article, in fact, from the National Museum of Natural History on how it's still used to test skeletal...

This intrigued me also. I read back in the early 90's I believe (I posted here back a ways) about a jeweler who worked out of his home, who mishandled cyanide and killed himself accidentally. His residence was an apartment complex that had to be evacuated as there were containers that were...

Quite true, but... as a former front desk clerk at 4 major hotel chains during my college years, I can attest that we are pretty good at detecting not only accents but where they are from. Now, I was not all desk clerks and my coworkers were not all desk clerks, and there is always an exception...

Possibilities are infinite when dealing with the unknown, agreed. However, all poisons, including cyanide can have a shelf life (expiration date) dependent on how they are stored. So, like milk, it can go bad so to speak, or be less effective and not kill you.

She never had children, per the ME exam, and depression is a good guess as most suicides are depression related as a rule. (I mean I wouldn't want to die unless I was depressed and felt there was no reason to go on.) Given also that she made it clear there are no relatives, estrangement could...

The Seattle Times has an article from 1991 addressing this. I'm hesitant to post the link here. Do a google search on "when did cyanide become hard to obtain in the USA." Cyanide was still accessible here in the 90's for specialized uses and industries. The assumption has been that this DOE had...

Her dental plate was never found and the serial number on the IUD was degraded and they were unable to trace it. (I posted the two news articles I had to copy from BITD when they were written. They've since had their links deleted, and we no longer have "The Way Back" archives as it was done...

Her brows were "over plucked" as was a style for far too long in my opinion LoL Her eyes sunk in due to the cyanide and some of the things she was taking (Metamucil and drinking Crystal Light). I think she looked rather dehydrated. No listing of time of death, although it appears she was...

Good questions! I'm thinking if she was methodical, as we can see she was, hanging up clothes in a suitcase would make sense to her and be more or less a reflex action. Also, all the velour suits were said to be brand new (unworn) and again just a thought maybe she wasn't sure she would actually...