Criminal Poisoning: Investigational Guide for Law Enforcement, Toxicologists, Forensic Scientists, and Attorneys (23 page)

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Analysis Notes:
Because thallium is not a normal body constituent, any concentration is considered significant. Blood and hair thallium levels are not reliable measures of exposure.

Selected Thallium Homicide Cases

Martha Lowenstein Marek (1932)

Caroline Grills (1947)

Graham Frederick Young (1971)

George Hanei (1976)

George Trepal (1988)

REFERENCES

1. Baselt RC:
Disposition of Toxic Drugs and Chemicals in Man
, 7th ed. Biomedical Publications, Foster City, CA, 2004.

SUGGESTED READING

Ballantyne B, Marrs TC, eds.:
Clinical and Experimental Toxicology of Cyanides
. Wright Publishers, Bristol, UK, 1987.

Bryson PD:
Comprehensive Review in Toxicology
, 2nd ed. Aspen Publishers, Rockville MD, 1989.

Ellenhorn MJ, Barceloux DG:
Medical Toxicology: Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Poisoning
. Elsevier, New York, 1988.

Moyer TP: Heavy metals: the forgotten toxins.
Ther Drug Monit Clin Toxicol Division 1996;11(3):1–5.

Olson KR, ed.:
Poisoning and Drug Overdose
, 4th ed. Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill, New York, 2004.

Polson CJ, Green MA, Lee MR:
Clinical Toxicology,
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Proctor NH, Hughes JP, Fischman ML:
Chemical Hazards of the Workplace,
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Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1988.

Seiler HG, Sigel H, Sigel A:
Handbook on Toxicity of Inorganic Compounds
. Marcel Dekker, New York, 1988.

Bibliographies

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Bibliographies

This extensive bibliographic collection on forensic toxicology, poisoning murders, and poisons in general represents the results of more than 35 years of my research on the subject. The citations have been drawn from an in-depth review of the international literature. These bibliographies are included for two major purposes: (1) to serve as a catalog of available literature for those individuals wishing to study the subject of poisons and murder in even greater depth, and (2) to provide for criminal investigators a checklist of things to search for in the environment of the homicidal poisoner.

ANALYTICAL TOXICOLOGY

Autenrieth W, Warren WH:
The Detection of Poisons and Strong Drugs. Including the Quantitative Estimation of Medicinal Principles in Certain Crude Materials.
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Blakiston’s Son & Co., Philadelphia, 1905.

Baselt RC:
Disposition of Toxic Drugs and Chemicals in Man
, 7th ed. Biomedical Publications, Foster City, CA, 2004.

Blyth AW:
Poisons and Their Effects and Detection—A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts
(2 vols.). Charles Griffin, London, England, 1884 (US edition, published by William Wood & Co., New York, 1885).

Campbell WA: Some landmarks in the history of arsenic testing.
Chem Britain
1965;1: 198–202.

Cavendish M:
Science Against Crime
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Chiavarelli S: Toxicologic chemistry, historic and contemporary.
Ann Ist Super Sanita 1968;4:445.

Clarke EGC:
Isolation and Identification of Drugs in Pharmaceuticals, Body Fluids, and PostMortem Material
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Coe JI: Postmortem chemistry: practical considerations and a review of the literature.
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Forensic Sci
1974;19(1):13–32.

Collin E:
Traite de toxicologie vegetale. Application du microscope a la recherche des poisons vegetaux. . . .
O. Dolin, Paris, 1907 (in French).

Curry AS:
Poison Detection in Human Organs
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From: Forensic Science and Medicine: Criminal Poisoning, Second Edition By: J. H. Trestrail, III © Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ

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Druid H, Holmgren P: A compilation of fatal and control concentrations of drugs in postmortem femoral blood.
J Forensic Sci
1997;42(1):79–87.

Gerber SM:
Chemistry and Crime—From Sherlock Holmes to Today’s Courtroom
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American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1983.

Gerber SM, Saferstein R:
More Chemistry and Crime—From Marsh Arsenic Test to DNA Profile
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Griffith JR, Nahata M: Intoxication with sodium monofluoroacetate (Compound 1080).

Vet Hum Toxicol
2000;44(2):93–05.

Haroz R, Salzman MS, Greenberg MI: Hyperammonemia: a possible marker for methanol and ethylene glycol intoxication.
Clin Toxicol
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Hilberg T, Rogde S, Morland J: Postmortem drug distribution—human cases related to results in experimental animals.
J Forensic Sci
1999;44(1):3–9.

Imwinkelried EJ: Forensic science: toxicological procedures to identify poisons.
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Law Bull
1994;30:172–179.

Itallie I: Fixation of time and administration in cases of chronic arsenic poisoning.
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1937;62:401 (abstract).

Jones GR, Pounder DJ: Site dependence of drug concentrations in postmortem blood—a case study.
J Anal Toxicol
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Langford AM, Pounder DJ: Possible markers for postmortem drug redistribution.
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Forensic Sci
1997;42(1):88–92.

LeBeau M, Andollo W, Hearn LE, et al: Recommendation for toxicological investigations of drug-facilitated sexual assaults.
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Leikin JG, Watson WA: Postmortem toxicology: what the dead can and cannot tell us.

Clin Toxicol
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Levin B:
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Loga BK, Smirnow D: Postmortem distribution and redistribution of morphine in man.

J Forensic Sci
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Mitchell CA:
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Moriya F, Hashimoto Y: Redistribution of basic drugs into cardiac blood from surrounding tissues during early-stages postmortem.
J Forensic Sci
1999;44(1):10–16.

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Niyogi SK: Historic development of forensic toxicology in America up to 1978.
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Forensic Med Pathol
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Niyogi SK: Historical overview of forensic toxicology. In:
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Cravey RH, Baselt RC, eds. Biomedical Publications, Davis, CA, 1981, pp. 7–24.

Pirl JN, Townsend GF, Valaitis AK, et al: Death by arsenic: a comparative evaluation of exhumed body tissues in the presence of external contamination.
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Pounder DJ: The nightmare of postmortem drug changes.
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Pounder DJ, Jones GR: Postmortem drug distribution—a toxicological nightmare.

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Pounder DJ, Owen V, Quigley C: Postmortem changes in blood amitriptyline concentration.
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Repetto RM, Repetto M: Habitual, toxic, and lethal concentrations of 103 drugs of abuse in humans.
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Repetto RM, Repetto M: Therapeutic, toxic, and lethal concentrations in human fluids of 90 drugs affecting the cardiovascular and hematopoietic systems.
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Repetto RM, Repetto M: Therapeutic, toxic, and lethal concentrations of 73 drugs affecting respiratory system in human fluids.
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Rule G, McLaughlin LG, Henion J: A quest for oleandrin in decayed human tissue.
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Sunshine I:
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Walker JT: Scientific evidence in poisoning cases.
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Wilson B: Traces of poison.
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Zeldenrust J, Boer D: Fatal phosphorus poisoning elucidated by exhumation three and a half years after burial.
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POISONING IN FICTION

Adelson L: The coroner of Elsinore. Some medicolegal reflections on Hamlet.
NEJM

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Alexander N:
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Bardell EB: Dame Agatha’s dispensary.
PharmHist
1984;26(1):13–19.

Bardell EB: Literary reflections of pharmacy—XI: thallium as “an untraceable poison.”

PharmHist
1988;30:188–190.

Bond RT:
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Borowitz A:
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Cooper P: The Devil’s foot—an excursion into Holmesian toxicology.
Pharm J
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Corvasce MV, Paglino JR:
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Cromie R, Wilson TS:
The Romance of Poisons—Being Weird Episodes from Life
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Jarrold & Sons, London, England (no date).

Done AK: History of poisons in opera.
Mithridata
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Fallis G:
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Foster N: Strong Poison—Chemistry in the works of Dorothy L. Sayers. In:
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Gerald MC:
The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie
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Gwilt JR: Brother Cadfael’s Herbiary.
Pharm J
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Gwilt PR: Poisoning—a dying art—some observations on the use of poisons in fiction, 1978 (unpublished).

Gwilt PR, et al: Dame Agatha’s poisonous pharmacopoeia.
Pharm J
1978;28 & 30:572, 573.

Gwilt PR, et al: The use of poison in detective fiction.
Clue: J Detect
1981;1:8–17.

Horning J:
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Huizinga E: Murder through the ear.
Pract Oto-rhino-laryng
1971;33:361–365.

Kahn JA: Atropine poisoning in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
NEJM
1984;414–416.

Kail AC: Medicine in Shakespeare: the bard and the body—4. Drugs, herbs and poisons.

Med J Aust
1983;515–519.

Keirans JE:
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Lundstrom B: Det perfekta mordet Hamlet, Akt I, scen 5 [The perfect murder—Hamlet: Act I, scene 5].
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Macht DI: Pharmacological appreciation of Shakespeare’s
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Bull Johns Hopkins Hosp
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Macht DI: A pharmacological appreciation of a Biblical reference to mass poisoning. II Kings IV, 38–41.
Johns Hopkins Bull
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Macht DI: A physiological and pharmacological appreciation of Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 59–73.
Bull Hist Med
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Criminals Think
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Mallory W:
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Murphy BF:
The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery
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Newton HC:
Crime and the Drama, or, Dark Deeds Dramatized
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Newton M:
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Riley D, McAllister P:
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Silbar H: Michigan’s poisoning maniac.
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