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Man guilty of killing wife by spiking Gatorade with anti-freeze
Prosecutors say the guy murdered the woman for her $250,000 life-insurance policy. He used his laptop sampling ways "to kill" a human with ethylene glycol, using the name of Kevin Spacey’s 1995 film-noir villain Keyser Soze from "The Usual Suspects." (Boston Herald)
July 2, 2008 | Permalink
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oh, c'mon, if she doesn't die, HE DOESN'T GET THE MONEY. See?
Posted by: sometimesilie | Jul 2, 2008 11:23:39 AM
anyway, I sincerely believe that they need to force feed this asshole some Anti-freeze Gatorade (I hear it taste's like Hi-C's Ectocooler, from the '80's) And be done with it. No fuss. No mess. No supporting this waste of oxygen for the next 40 years or so. In popular parlance, "Thank-You, Drive Through".
Posted by: sometimesilie | Jul 2, 2008 11:27:32 AM
One of my uncles tried to kill himself this way a couple of years ago. Spent a couple of weeks in the hospital with some major problems. Well he had major problems already, but the coolant didn't help. I hear that it is a very unpleasant way to go...
Posted by: Reno | Jul 2, 2008 11:42:54 AM
His wife was a registered nurse. Let's see average pay for qualifed RN is around 50K. So he killed for a five year ROI (return on investment). Jeez what an idiot.
Posted by: nellagain | Jul 2, 2008 11:44:47 AM
Wow, middlesex looks like a dangerous place to live. Why do people think they can surf the web annonymously? If you use one of the computers you normally use you will be found out. Stupid, stupid people...They all deserve the DP...
Posted by: R | Jul 2, 2008 11:51:51 AM
On the totally not a part of this thread side:
I found this little gem and since nudity and cycling have been recent topics I thought I'd share
...According to a Gay Pride Parade organizer who met with police on June 18, a Seattle police officer threatened to arrest nude cyclists scheduled to ride in the Pride Parade. But when parade attorney David Coffman tried to verify those claims, SPD assistant chief Nicholas Metz told him that Seattle's nude-cycling policy hadn't changed...."
Now what strikes me as wonderful is that Seattle *has* a nude cycling policy. I pretty sure my town doesn't or at least doesn't have formally written out one. But Seattle does. Maybe I should bring this up at the next city council meeting.
(in case you care, you can ride nekkid as long as there's no lewd behavior and no one complains.)
Posted by: nellagain | Jul 2, 2008 12:17:13 PM
probably wasn`t sweet enough
Posted by: | Jul 2, 2008 12:20:29 PM
This scumbag lied to his wife about everything from the beginning. Truly sad for her & her family.
Is love truly that blind or is it just living (and dying - in this case) in denial?
STS - Yes, he using up too much precious oxygen - as are the other two murderers in Middleton.
Middleton has a murder epidemic! I am not moving there. There must be something in the water!
Posted by: Anna | Jul 2, 2008 12:25:55 PM
Any intelligent person knows it just isn't easy to kill someone anymore. They'll catch you. With our technology today we're starting to catch people that committed murder back in the 8o's, its a beautiful thing.
Wouldn't she have had some type of symptoms??? How did no one figure this out until she was dead?
Posted by: cherie | Jul 2, 2008 12:27:36 PM
Cherie,
she did have symptoms. But in the absense of already *knowing* that she had poisoned, they could be symptoms of a lot of conditions.
Once they did an autopsy (which allows far more extensive sampling than lab tests), chances are they found the characteristic damage. My guess is that the doctors and police were suspicious of something when the first round of diagnosis failed. An otherwise asymptomatic woman in her thirties does not just develop kidney/liver failure overnight.
Posted by: nellagain | Jul 2, 2008 12:40:11 PM
Gatorade tastes so nasty that you'd probably never know it was poisoned, anyhow.
What a horrible story.
Posted by: Phranqlin | Jul 2, 2008 1:03:10 PM
Nell - probably put on the books for the Solstice parade in the Fremont neighborhood. There are always some 'free spirits' in that one.
Posted by: Navy Chief | Jul 2, 2008 1:07:46 PM
Wow, nude bicycling just doesn't sound very comfortable, for a man or a woman.
Posted by: Reno | Jul 2, 2008 1:11:11 PM
It doesn't, does it? and not really that attractive a position either.
I wonder if they wear helmets?
Posted by: nellagain | Jul 2, 2008 1:26:22 PM
I would need a minimum of panties and bra to go bicycling, so I guess a bikini would work. Gotta protect the girls in case I crash! Nothing to absorb the sweat though, so maybe more clothes would be good...
Posted by: Reno | Jul 2, 2008 1:38:20 PM
Ethylene Glycol C2H4(OH)2 has a sweet taste, thanks to the glycerine, so it probably went undetected in the Gatorade. (OH)2 is an alcohol group (solvent) so she may even to have appeared drunk.
In most places, its illegal to kill yourself anyways...so to claim suicide is dumb.
Thank your insurance company for that clause in the policy. Helps them save money. Insurance companies saw to it that it was made illegal so they don't have to pay out.
One loss of life for nothing.
Someone needs to give that man an antifreeze enema.
Posted by: Rat | Jul 2, 2008 3:00:43 PM
Not only is this guy a total rat bastard, he is ugly, too.
Posted by: | Jul 2, 2008 3:11:55 PM
You got anti-freeze in my Gatorade!
You got Gatorade in my anti-freeze!
Posted by: Joe M. | Jul 2, 2008 4:46:08 PM
If he would have divorced her it would have cost him $250,00.
Posted by: Dick C. Normas | Jul 2, 2008 6:13:09 PM
The Bastard . . . He stole my idea
Posted by: Topcat | Jul 2, 2008 6:53:19 PM
well it works great for those bothersome neighbors pets, it was only a matter of time before someone tried it on their spouse
Posted by: angrysockmonkey | Jul 3, 2008 2:58:57 AM
side effects of technology.
Posted by: paresh | Jul 3, 2008 3:53:21 AM
Out of the hundreds of ways to off a person without getting caught... this is NOT one of them.
P.P.P.P.P.P.
Proper planning prevents piss poor performance.
Posted by: Ankharan | Jul 3, 2008 4:19:10 AM
"Keown is the third husband convicted this month of murder in Middlesex Superior Court."
must be something in the water.
Posted by: twerp | Jul 3, 2008 6:34:09 AM
You know for years people have been apealing to the makers of antifreeze to put a bittering agent in, so living beings with taste buds would know it's poison
Posted by: April | Jul 3, 2008 6:43:32 AM
