Recent content by jjenny

Very well could be. Also, maybe it didn't taste that bad. If it was really awful my guess the rest of the family wouldn't finish their slices. It is my understanding that arsenic actually doesn't have a taste, but it causes a bad taste in the mouth. So they might have not realized the cake was...

"Ms. Kawam, 57, grew up in a small white house on a street dotted with modest single-family homes. Her father worked on the assembly line at the General Motors plant in Linden. Her mother worked in a bakery, said Malcolm Fraser, Susan’s husband and a childhood friend of Ms. Kawam. She had an...

There was a fake name circulated on social media of the victim supposedly being in her twenties, but it was a fake victim.

Her age range was given from 30 to 60 and she was 57. So she was not older than initially suspected.

<modsnip> It's very sad, considering it appears she graduated from the University and had a job for a while after graduation. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/nyregion/coney-island-subway-burning-victim-identified.html

I wonder as to what the hubby died from? I am surprised that food poisoning death was just considered "natural" without even apparently trying to identify the source of poisoning.

She had mobility issues and used a walker. She likely couldn't physically drop and roll.

Presence of arsenic in a juice or fruit is a speculation. I haven't seen anything about them knowing the actual source of arsenic.

Food products can naturally have arsenic, but it's at very low levels. "Very low levels of inorganic and organic arsenic are found in many food products, according to the National Institutes of Health. Testing is routine, as slightly elevated levels of either form can cause symptoms such as...

Hard for me to believe that a juice can naturally build up a large amount of arsenic. Or this sort of thing would be happening all the time.

The homeless shelters should be checked too. I wonder if they keep track of the residents.

Homeless doesn't necessarily mean living on the street. The suspect himself could be described as homeless, but he was living in a shelter.

Her husband died from food poisoning? Did anybody try to figure out which food poisoned him? Even if death didn't seem suspicious, you'd think somebody would look into which food killed him.

I don't think they figured out yet at which point she got onto the train.

With arsenic, a person can slowly build up tolerance. One can take small amounts over a long period of time. Then what would have been a lethal dose won't work. "There is evidence that humans and other animals can build up tolerance to the toxic effects of arsenic. A society of “arsenic eaters”...