NC - Restaurant owner charged with murdering 2 people by putting poison in their drinks - Hendersonville, arrested 16 Jan 2026

[Inthedetails]

Fish and chips is very European in origin. Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish people escaping the inquisition are thought to be the original creators of the dish.

Fish and chips - Wikipedia

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Keeping to this case, a few days ago I found a couple of reviews of her public house. I don't think the place was open long. The food got "eh" reviews. Not super terrible but definitely not big praise. I'll say IMO because I can't find the reviews again. There were not many.

jmopinion

 

[Hexe]

Keeping to this case, a few days ago I found a couple of reviews of her public house. I don't think the place was open long.

With such lovely start I am not surprised it closed permanently.

 

[Inthedetails]

With such lovely start I am not surprised it closed permanently.

Good find.

I think we'll find a mess of financial problems in her past.

jmo

 

[Serononin]

Good find.

I think we'll find a mess of financial problems in her past.

jmo

Everything about this woman seems chaotic. I wonder what her daughters' childhoods were like...

 

[borndem]

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Hendersonville is a city in and the county seat of Henderson County, North Carolina, United States, located 22 miles south of Asheville. Wikipedia

• Current Weather: Cloudy 34°F/1°C
• Local Time: 1:35 PM EST, Saturday
• County: Henderson County, North Carolina
• Population: 15,137
• Altitude: 656 m

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[borndem]

Pierogi as a pub grub? Maybe let's start with saying we do not have an equivalent of public houses, as known in UK, in Poland and when still had inns and taverns the time consuming pierogi was not an usual dish in there. It changed after the second world war when the milk bars appeared.
Also, Brits did not take the idea of a public house turning it into something something, they invented them. Fish and chips is a typically British dish, not all European. And Schweinskäse. Dear God. Last time I checked it was a kind of pate, nor a sausage cheese dip!

That woman is not German, she did not spend any time in Germany or anywhere in Europe, I can assure you. And I am pretty sure she is as much a member of that beermaker family as I am (hint: I have no relation to them).

Edit: the cheese dip shocked me so much I forgot to mention I do not know any variant of the name Gudrun with umlaut u - like Güdrun.

Wondering how much "research" she did on any of this?
Just SMH -- another odd one here!

And many thanks, Hexe, for the info.

 

[iQuill]

Wait a minute ... she is 52 years old and has a 3 year old?? and a 9 year old?
Have we heard anything from her current man?

Murder defendant is the mother of two alleged poisoning victims

From the article:

Riddle says Casper-Leinenkugel now has two more children with a man she currently lives with.
“She has a little boy about 9, and the little girl looked to be about 3,” she said of the woman’s two younger children. “The last time I saw them was at the funeral (of Leela Livis).

Moo

 

[lonetraveler]

Now I'm second guessing that reporting. Apparently her name is Gudrun Linda Jean Casper-Leinenkugel and I'm skeptical that is her given name. I wonder if Linda Jean Casper somewhere along the line became Gudrun Leinenkugel to sound more German to go along with her Public House? IDK if that is crazy on my part (or hers!).

Speculation, at this point.

jmopinion

I think it is very plausible.