Chicago lottery winner poisoned with cyanide

Fox News.com ^ | 1/7/2013 | Fox News

[lonevoice]

CHICAGO – A Chicago medical examiner says a lottery winner was fatally poisoned with cyanide a day after he collected nearly $425,000.

[Jonty30]

Not likely cyanide, I agree.

It would take a lot of apples to ingest enough cyanide to be deadly. :)

[LibertarianLiz]

“Angela Lansbury” She was one bad omen. What couple times I saw the show, she shows up at the front door ... 24 hours later ... yikes.

LOL, your comment gave me a flashback to Dr. Quinn - Medicine Woman. My eldest daughter was in elementary school at the time, and she would watch this show with me and then comment on what a lousy doctor the "medicine woman" was because people she took care of were always dying.

[lonevoice]

I hope it was an accident......

The article on Fox News says the medical examiner reclassified the death as a homicide.

[Straight Vermonter]

Is that the stuff that smells like almonds

Yes but not everyone has the genetic predisposition to smell/taste it.

[JRandomFreeper]

Yes, cyanide smells of almonds.

/johnny

[The Cajun]

Chicago lottery winner poisoned with cyanide

Guess the ammo shortage is effecting Chicago too.....Just drawing a conclusion.

[Conserev1]

I think we need to call in Inspector Clouseau~!

[Wolfie]

“Congratulations honey, here’s a nice big piece of almond torte to celebrate”.

[Conserev1]

And a 3 day wait and background check to buy cyanide.

[Valpal1]

I have two guesses:

The obvious; The wife did it because now he could afford more than one wife.

The less obvious; A male relative did it, with plans to frame the wife, hence the request by a relative for a fuller investigation.

[simonjo]

Didn’t Obama do that to Andrew Breitbart and the coroner? Too incidental that Andrew was killed on March 1st if you ask me.

[Morris70]

I would move first. Then fly back just to collect.

[bgill]

That’s one way for Chicago to save their budget.

[adorno]

It’s obviously time the government instituted an assault poison ban.

Or, it's time to ban the lotteries.

Without the lotteries, there would be no lottery-winnings-related homicides.

That dead lottery winner from Florida, Shakespeare, would agree with me.

[SeminoleCounty]

Whars the Assault Cyanide ban? Whar? Whar?

[dirtymac]

Rahm

[expat2]

Cui bono?

[justrepublican]

He got a lousy $425 out of $1,000,000 win? 57.5% taxes

Ban Gov. gambling

[Slyfox]

He didn't happen to be the 6-6-6 winner the day after Obama won the election in 2008, was he?