[Robert DeLong]

There are 8 million chemical compounds on Earth, yet even the most sophisticated coroner’s lab tests for no more than a few hundred of them. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that when 300-pound Burbank mortician Timothy Waters died three years ago, medical examiners missed the real cause of death--poison.

Waters was thought to have died on April 8, 1985, from a heart attack. But new tests discovered oleander, a potent poison taken from the brightly flowered plant common in California, in his tissue.

So perhaps it just appears to be a heart attack, if true that he is dead.

[notdownwidems]

Your post makes little sense...did he die 3 years ago or in 1985?

[Clutch Martin]

“But new tests discovered oleander, a potent poison taken from the brightly flowered plant common in California, in his tissue.”

I was in the Boy Scouts in Thailand, our leader was Hawaiian. He showed us the Oleander, gave us the warning and told us to never use an Oleander stick to roast hotdogs as the sap would enter the food and you would die from the toxins.