SPOKANE, Wash. - According to officials at Washington State University, the poison strychnine was detected in a meatball found on Spokane's South Hill last week. Three dogs have been reported dead ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - The death of a dog on Spokane's South Hill earlier this month was not the result of strychnine poisoning, according to an animal control officer with SpokAnimal. The animal died on ...

Miss Rosa Kempf, 22, told a physician the night she died that she had not taken poison, but had eaten some “bitter candy” given to her by William Delaney, who claimed to be her “sweetheart.” An ...

Many of us know strychnine from crime reports, novels or films. Agatha Christie had several of her victims die of strychnine poisoning. She described what is probably the best-known fictional murder ...

The “sensational developments” in the Rosa Kempf strychnine poisoning case, promised by the Spokane Daily Chronicle a day earlier, turned out to merely deepen the mystery. Police learned that H.M.

KENT — The second murder trial is under way in Kent for a pest control business manager accused of poisoning his wife with strychnine. The first trial of Joseph Naimo ended in October with the jury ...

LOUISIANA, Mo. — A 37-year-old man is dead after taking methamphetamine that authorities believe was laced with a main ingredient in rat poison. James Gregory died Sunday in Pike County in northeast ...

When authorities suspected Carl Zubr had poisoned his second wife, they started to wonder about the death of his first wife, too. The bodies of both women, it turned out, were laced with strychnine.

The Purdie Clark case explores multiple suspicious deaths, culminating in a fatal strychnine poisoning, examined in Snapped: ...

A research team has disclosed the complete biosynthetic pathway for the formation of strychnine in the plant species Strychnos nux-vomica (poison nut). The researchers identified all genes involved in ...