CANADA Canada- Patricia Ann Kucerovsky, 43, mom, school teacher, died of mercury poisoning, Fredericton, NB, 29 August, 2008, *Homicide, case re-opened*.

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September 12, 2025 rbbm.

Fredericton police reopen investigation into unsolved homicide by mercury poisoning

Fredericton police say they have reopened an investigation into the 2008 homicide of a 43-year-old school teacher who was allegedly poisoned with mercury.No charges were ever laid, and the Fredericton Police Force won't say why it's revisiting the case, which went cold in 2013. In 2011 police...

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Patricia Ann Kucerovsky had two young children at the time of her death in 2008. (CBC - image credit)

One person was briefly arrested, but police said ultimately there was not enough evidence to lay a charge in connection with Kucerovsky's death. (CBC)

'Fredericton police say they have reopened an investigation into the 2008 homicide of a 43-year-old school teacher who was allegedly poisoned with mercury.

No charges were ever laid, and the Fredericton Police Force won't say why it's revisiting the case, which went cold in 2013.

In 2011 police identified and briefly arrested a 44-year-old man in connection with the death of Patricia Ann Kucerovsky, but he was later released unconditionally''.

''Campbell said the most common reason to reopen an investigation is that new evidence has become available.

There also might be new technology available to police now that wouldn't have been at the time of the crime, she said.''

 

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February 11, 2013 rbbm

Family shares new information after mercury poisoning death

Police are calling it a closed case, but the family of Patricia Ann Kucerovsky is sharing information about the woman’s suspicious mercury poisoning death for the first time.

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“The last thing she asked me was ‘Will I be OK?’ and I never heard her speak again, other than screaming after that,” says Kucerovksy’s sister, Deborah Barter.

Memories of how the 43-year-old Fredericton woman died in hospital five years ago still haunt her family.

When the mother of young twins was first admitted to the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital on Aug. 19, 2008, doctors couldn’t explain what was making her ill.

“Some, I think more strongly than others, still had this deep feeling inside that it was something much more sinister,” says Barter. “We voiced that from day one at the hospital.”

Barter says her family was suspicious because her sister was incoherent and her speech slurred.
“We were saying these things and the advice I was getting was, ‘Be careful what you say, this is too horrible.’”
The family also questions why Kucerovsky’s hair was cut in the moments after her death.
“Why would you want to shave her head? What’s the need?” wonders Haggerty.
The family says these points should be the basis of a coroner’s inquest.''