poison

One of the most recent trends in alternative / fringe wellness circles is the use of extremely toxic frog poison to induce malaise and projectile emissions alleged to purge the body of toxins. The grueling experience is also credited as a psychological purgative that leaves one feeling much...

The Germans have now confirmed apparently that Alexei Navalny was indeed poisoned. Wonder how long it will be before Putins chaps will blame Covid 19.

SCOTLAND YARD is investigating a suspected plot to assassinate a former Russian spy in Britain by poisoning him with thallium, the deadly metal. Aleksander Litvinenko, who defected to Britain six years ago, is fighting for his life in a London hospital. A toxicology test at Guy’s hospital last...

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As Arafat's health seems to be in a somewhat sharp decline, and for reasons unknown (so far) I wonder what will happen if he dies, WRT conspiracy theories? One possible conspiracy that occurs to me is that he's been poisoned, as the reasons for his ill-health don't seem to be all that clear at...

Sometimes people just manage to dodge appearing in the Strange deaths column ;) story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=5&u=/nm/20040204/od_nm/cats_dc Link is dead. An alternative copy of the news item (quoted in full above) can be accessed via the Wayback Machine...

With recent cases of a scorpion found in a box of mango and a black widow found alive in a refrigerated bag of grapes (http://www.dailynewstribune.com/news/local_regional/mayn_grapes11212003.htm), realistically, how serious is a risk of insect poison getting into wine or grape juice from a...

Wasn't there something in FT a long time ago about women criminals in somewhere like Korea putting sedative drugs on their nipples and then getting unsuspecting men to partake. Man falls into deep sleep only to find himself a wallet and valuables lighter........

Some time ago I was reading something on 14th century central Europe and came across the expression VENETRICE (SP?) A Venetrice was a young girl who was also a weapon of assassination The idea came from the Arab / Ottoman world and went like this You took a beautiful slave girls baby...