Revision as of 22:29, 8 July 2023 edit Fenderbear (talk \| contribs) 20 edits →‎Symptoms: Removed accidental "#" sign from text Tags: Manual revert Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit ← Previous edit		Revision as of 15:57, 20 July 2023 edit undo Omeganian (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 2,057 edits m →‎Others Next edit →
Line 71: * In summer 1981 the East German secret service "Stasi" poisoned dissident Wolfgang Welsch, who had previously been expelled to West Germany, during his holiday in Israel. He barely survived.<ref>{{cite news \|url=https://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/wissen/article102972391/Giftmord-Thallium-hat-Arsen-abgeloest.html \|title=Giftmord Thallium hat Arsen abgeloest \|id=Print archive article 102972391 \|newspaper=Morgen Post \|place=Germany \|lang=de}}{{full citation \|date=July 2020}}</ref> In 1985, spiritual leader [[Rajneesh]] was allegedly poisoned with small doses of poison, by Reagan Administration and Church, as per accounts of his followers. This allegation was never proven. He died after 5 years in 1990. In 1987, in Kyiv, a woman named [[~~:ru:Иванютина, Тамара Антоновна\|~~Tamara ~~Ivanutina~~Ivanyutina]] was arrested along with her older sister and parents. They were found guilty of 40 cases of poisoning (13 of them lethal) with [[Clerici solution]] obtained from an acquaintance working at a geology institute. Tamara (guilty of nine deaths, including four children) was executed in one of the three documented cases of women receiving the capital punishment in post-Stalin Soviet Union. Her relatives received prison terms, the parents dying in jail.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.bizarrepedia.com/tamara-ivanyutina-family-killers \|title=Tamara Ivanyutina and her family of serial killers \|website=Bizarrepedia}}</ref> * In 1988, members of the Carr family from Alturas, [[Polk County, Florida]], fell ill from what appeared to be thallium poisoning. Peggy Carr, the mother, died slowly and painfully from the poison. Her son and stepson were critically ill but eventually recovered. The Carrs' neighbor, chemist [[George J. Trepal]], was convicted of murdering Mrs. Carr and attempting to murder her family, and sentenced to death. The thallium was slipped into bottles of [[Coca-Cola]] at the Carr and Trepal homes.<ref>{{cite web \|title=The Case of Trepal, George (w/m) \|department=The Commission on Capital Cases \|publisher=State of Florida \|url=http://www.floridacapitalcases.state.fl.us/case_updates/121965.doc \|access-date=2007-11-29 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216100348/http://www.floridacapitalcases.state.fl.us/case_updates/121965.doc \|archive-date=2008-02-16}}</ref> * Thallium was the poison of choice for [[Saddam Hussein]] to use on dissidents, which even allowed for them to emigrate before dying.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2461655,00.html \|title=Slow-acting killer that was Saddam's favourite instrument of vengeance \|website=timesonline.co.uk \|publisher=[[The Times]] \|place=London, UK}}{{full citation \|date=July 2020}}</ref>

Thallium poisoning: Difference between revisions