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Podcast: Forensic Tales
Episode: Stella Nickell
Description: #323 - In 1986, a Washington woman was convicted of intentionally killing two people with cyanide-laced extra-strength Excedrin capsules. One of the victims was her very own husband. The other was a complete stranger.Â
Her conviction and 90-year prison sentence became the first under federal product tampering laws instituted after the 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders that killed at least 7 people.Â
Is she a victim of a system that got it wrong during a time when people were paranoid of product tampering? Or is she guilty as charged?
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